POL200Y1 Study Guide - Baruch Spinoza, Christian Republic, Noble Lie
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Polarizations of wealth tend to create lords; tend to also downplay the importance of the people who become he very poor. These polarities make it impossible for a unified political and military regime to conduct politics, to project military power. Finally, says that for a bellicose republic to be successful have to keep up a high level of military training. In chapter 20, says he will pick up his same theme about the military; discusses one of the. Parallel case: consider a human body (also a mixed body); satisfying our bodily desires for food and drink is certainly necessary, but does that mean that pursuing those desires to the highest. Alba : rome"s extraordinary man-power was a political choice that unlike the spartans and the. For machiavelli it is one that works, one that effectively stores and releases power according to its own will. Christianized holy roman empire to the present condition of the italian city states that is.
