CORE-UA 403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Political Philosophy, Avail, Bloody Knife
18 Nov 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The platonic assumption: a good man will make a good ruler. For machiavelli, it doesn"t matter whether the prince is a good or bad man. November 9, 2020 must learn how to appear good or bad, as the situation warrants. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavor of them may last longer. In 1512, spanish forces invaded italy and the florentine political climate changed abruptly. The medici, for centuries the rulers of florence but exiled since 1494, seized the opportunity to depose soderini and replace the republican government with their own autocratic regime. Machiavelli was purged from office, jailed and tortured for his well-known republican sentiments, and finally banished to his country residence in percussina. Machiavelli spent the enforced retirement writing the small body of political writings that insured his literary immortality, including the.
