POT 2002 Lecture Notes - Social Forces, Structural Similarity, Essentialism

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POT 2002
• Professor: All

Document Summary

**for exam, compare discourses and the prince: machiavelli in context. Machiavelli witnessed his execution: new republican government under piero soverini under which machiavelli becomes an active political participant, medici come back and push machiavelli out of power. Treat it like a principality and arrest machiavelli, tortured and eventually let him go, where he writes. 69: put on regal robesdressed in appropriate manner enter into ancient courts of ancient men . Confers with ancients in belief that history can tell things about politics that are relevant and applicable today. The content of the form in the prince. Pg 160 prince who relies completely on fortune will ruin as she changes man who adapts will succeed, man who sets his course of action out of tune with the time will come to grief. Behave accoding to what circumstance necessitates/requires to win fortune . An advice book meant to describe how lorenzo d"medici can survive/thrive in dangerous set of circumstances.