POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Israelites, Thrasymachus, Great Spirit
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Machiavelli, the prince: chapter 6, 7 & 8. Chapter 6 y as i remarked in the day section of our course, i d describe this chapter as world breaking and world making. A world is a dangerous thing to break, and an equally dangerous one to make. It s in this chapter that machiavelli reaches his point of no return. y the theme of the chapter is the loftiest political examples. Machiavelli includes moses, the greatest of the hebrew prophets, bringer of. God s law to the israelites, on the authenticity of whose prophecy christianity and. Yet no sooner does machiavelli mention moses than he must apologize for his presence in this chapter. Moses just doesn t belong in this chapter (or in this book). Yet even having admitted this, machiavelli goes on to treat him anyway, once again offering egregious evidence of his incompetence as a writer.
