POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Healthy City, Polymath, Tyrant
10 Apr 2016
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Portrayed to us as an evil character, but really was a man of his imes: renaissance man. Renaissance characterized by great art, started in italy. This period, arists and philosophers took their guide from before the middle ages (pagans, ancient greece, rome, etc. ) Bc of this lack of naional cohesion, italy was constantly being invaded by the north (france, austria) Find pragmaic construcions of how poliics should be performed with m. no romanicisms. What was important then was glory in the sense of accumulaion of power and wealth: he was a naturalist and considered these good, understood human nature didn"t really change, no mater how you try to educate people. Leadership is important to m, and certain individuals with certain skills. M says if you want to be successful in poliics, you also have to understand the seedier side of humanity, which will always be with us.
