HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cesare Borgia, Principate, Realpolitik
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Examples of leadership (from history, modern era, and ) Moses: egypt leader who lead people out of syrian desert;became an assured leader. Opportunities are what fortune gave them because of their inherent virtues. Son of a pope (alexander the xi) whom controlled the people states. Fortune is the case that does everything right. Very effective dealing with enemies and as a result, became a contestant ruler. Put one of his subordinates to "clean up" the city gvn"t, who succeed his job but people hated him; decapitated. Borgia had the virtue as someone else did the dirty work for a moment. [i]t was not his fault, because this arose from an extraordinary and extreme malignity of fortune (p. 59). And yet one cannot call it virtuous to kill one"s fellow citizens, to betray one"s friends, to be without faith, without compassion, without religion. These modes made be used to acquire rule but not glory.
