POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Cesare Borgia

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Either be corrupted for use of others, or abandon society. But machiavelli has a third option: create your own society. Machiavelli though holds that these third types of individuals to form new societies is fear: society fears them, therefore makes itself their biggest fear. Fear is at the centre of it all, according to machiavelli, and hobbes will democratize this fear. Machiavelli is the rogue thinker, who, unlike plato, who decides to reserve himself to the theoretical world, actually tries to surmount the effectual world: being in favour of a practical goal. Machiavelli therefore brings the supreme human being closer to us, allows him to collaborate with us. Machiavelli though, suggests ways of working out this problem of mutual fear. Title: human beings as such and ways through which. Machiavelli says he doesn t want to be presumptuous (also says this in dedicatory letter for giving advice to lorenzo).

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