POL200Y1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - God, Merchant Prince, Christianity
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Genetic engineering: reports of couples in the future will build their offspring. Post-modernity: post-modernists claim to represent modern thoughts. Skepticism and modernity: hope is skepticism will pursue good results by pushing away law and just ideas, both ideas work together. Machiavelli is identified as modern by others: his modernity was strange to others who were thought to think a certain way at this time; misunderstood because he was modern. Is reassuring to him: almost impossible to lose your hereditary principality and even if he does, he"ll easily regain it. Chapter 3: however most of these problems he describes are also problems of hereditary princes, ex. After your interests are achieved, things tend to diverge. Roman gods and they were gods of war (even venus). They were considered to be strong and virtuous: everyone served the state of rome, even the gods, the romans made god work for them.