POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Scientific Method, Takers
11 Jun 2013
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Presents himself as trying to assault lorenzo using the topography metaphor based on dedicatory letter. Plato: ideas = outside space and time in material, permanent, eternal, can"t do anything to or with them except achieve theoretical understanding. Authors of imagined principality ; classical thinkers e. g. plato, kingdom of heaven is a imaginary principality, christianity, the church not a political regime but a worldly regimes. Imagined principalities go with imagined truth, not practical, Opposes himself to previous thinkers christianity. Ultimate end of political action is security and well-being, doesn"t mention glory, Thus a prince without damage of himself prudent should not care about name of meaness ;its an odeious name not a dangerous reputation for rapacity. Machiavelli has come full cirle, from concerning to liberty to rapacity, and than meaness, and uses rapacity for liberty. Liberty as aristotle is taught is worst, than stingness, and than rapacity from others. Policy of steady economic growth, in machiavelli days means conquest,
