POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Class Conflict, Political Psychology, Political Philosophy
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Discourses on the first 10 books of livy was written at the same time as the prince. Discourses acts as machiavelli"s answer to plato"s republic and aristotle"s on politics. The objective is outlining a practically functional republic. His choice of using a commentary portrayal reflected the differing goals he had for the. Titus livy is a roman historian; he lived during 59 ad - 87 ad. He gave an account of rome"s rise to power; its evolution from a republic to an empire. He works was designed to demonstrate roman virtue as well as other virtues such as piety, discipline and boldness. Interesting that livy had 142 books and machiavelli had 142 chapters. It is possible that machiavelli is reviewing the history livy recounted. A: those books concerned with rome during its zenith of power. Before the creation of the empire, but also into the early times of the republic.
