SCS 1160 Lecture : Class 3. Dicourses.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 1160
• Professor: Jordan Stancil

Document Summary

Looking at history to get information about how we can do something, to create a political regime that is stable and will last a long time, all while being powerful and do glorious things. In order to imitate the roman republic we must know what makes it great. By looking closely we can understand how to make good political regimes now. He is going to draw conclusions from this history that are directly opposed to historical interpretation: mainly that you cannot trust democracy. Machiavelli says it was the fact that the people had power that lead to the overall power of rome. Machiavelli says we must if you want a powerful state that is long lasting. Preface: meditation on what we should think about the past. We tend to glorify the past and sometimes the past is better. Even if you cant recreate the past you still need to study them and have a record of them.