POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cardinal Virtues, Civics, Cesare Borgia
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Chapters 1 and 2: acquire kingdoms and the role of memory. Chapter 7 and 8: cesare borgia, agathocles, and the well-used cruelty. In chapter 7: cesare borgia it was necessary to give this province a good government: established a civil court in the centre of the province. Every city had to appoint a lawyer: he was not to be blamed for any cruelty should they ever occur, reputation for being a teacher of evil. Some think his teachings so ridiculous that his works were categorized as satire. Politics is the art of power and the art of acquisition. A few brave people should face up to the ugliness and violence that necessarily characterize. His understanding of nature : rejected the classical theories as politics: nature is rationally ordered and providential, the order of the cosmos was governed by the benevolence of god, recall: human beings were naturally social creatures.
