POL200Y1 Chapter 2: The Prince 2
8 Feb 2019
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What does machiavelli mean by "prince": ruler over a principality, may be broader than just a ruler. Chapter 8: does machiavelli call agathocles virtuous, he does, because machiavelli emphasizes that agathocles was born as a nobody and rose to being a king through himself. Someone who is not absolute like a king. A prince can also be a state of mind, a disposition. A term that is ambiguous: what is a king, within this book, it may just be the position. From lecture: self-regarding and other regarding virtues, virtues that promote you (intelligence, ambitious, etc. , other-regarding virtues are those that make you decent to others (beneficial to others, just, kind. It is not clear whether nm views these other-regarding virtues as bad in of themselves or whether they are bad because they make others distain you: as much as cruelty as is necessary but no more.
