POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tyrant, Pessimism, Republicanism
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Chapters 16 18, 55: corruption and the free republics. Princes of the republic: 21, 55, 34, and 42. Humanism, anti-mystical, scientific rationalism, emphasis on human action. One of the meanings of corruption is decay, the opposite of health. Corruption can also be understood as an individual vice. 16-18: the corruption of a state from the standpoint of a leader who tries to eradicate corruption. If a ruler wants to acquire worldly glory not to destroy it, but to re-establish it like. Re-establish his fellow corrupt people, the florentines. Legal self-rule: partisan enemies who used to benefit from a kingdom in which servitude was. A striking principle: to kill the sons of brutus p 122 popular. 16: recall cruelty well-used: clearty (?) hacked the nobility to pieces in public. The single ruler vs. the populous: could become a collective force that is significantly.
