POLS-Y 105 Lecture 7: Machiavelli Summary Notes
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Fortuna (lion & fox) (learn how not to be good) Must avoid being hated or looking weak: obstacles to achieving, fortuna sense of how the whole universe fits together, the world was pre-established by the way the cosmos were aligned. Fortuna controlled much of what happened in the world. If fortuna did not pre-determine your success, you can still be successful if you work hard and follow. Machiavelli"s advice. (ch 25) compares fortuna to a river there are people that just go with the flow, there is no reason to sweat over things. People have free will fortuna is the arbiter for half the things we do. Violent river, when they are enraged they destroy everything around them and there"s nothing one can do about it. When they are flowing quietly, one has some control to take precautions. When you have established power, you have some control.
