POLI1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oligarchy, Tyrant, Louis Xii Of France
2 Sep 2015
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Political theory = an attempt to find the answer to the question of what is the best politics. The premise of the selected texts of this course is that a political life is the highest life; the goal: winston churchill. Impressive failure until he was in his 60s when he became prime minister during. The prince: written part in latin and part in italian, subtitles are in latin. Indication that this book has two audiences italian for the masses and. Chapter 1: machiavelli divides regimes as, aristotle divides regimes as: Contrasting these two models: machiavelli doesn"t take into account if one is ruling for others or for oneself, he believes everyone is self-interested ii. Tyrant never appears in this book: machiavelli is essentially seducing us to forget the distinction between the common good and our own good, the best kind of seduction occurs when the seduced doesn"t realize what"s happening.
