PSC 3315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nick Saban, House Of Medici, Lane Kiffin
22 Feb 2016
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Lecture #3, #4, #5 [1/25, 1/27, 1/29] document: the prince by machiavelli. Hobbes: the root cause of political conflict is human nature. Treaty of westphalia and the leviathan written 3 years apart: machiavelli analyses the themes behind this time; he is way before either of improved. those things. Medici family in power during his life. He experienced both the good end of power and the business end of power pope. Rejects the ideas of plato and aristotle (a lot of them) Don"t read machiavelli like he"s a fortune cookie reading. Saying, i can write this because of my experience . You have to rule and be ruled to truly understand these things, and i"ve done both . Principalities: differentiate them by how they"re acquired (1) hereditary (2) altogether new (3) added to hereditary state, hereditary less cause to rule harshly unless necessary. Problem: someone else has done all the work; you"re just a link in a chain in history.
