Machiavelli's The Prince

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The role of a strong leader
The philosophy of Machiavelli in his book the Prince is simply acknowledging the incompatibility of ethics and successful governance of a state. He breaks the barrier between how we “ought” to behave and how we actually behaving. In this article , I will look into Machiavelli's key points of views on vices and ethics , I will consider and compare his ideologies on morality of the Prince with our present world, to our everyday life and to what we sees our on government's national policies and foreign policies. with these I will be able to argue on whether I agree with some of his point of view or not and I will emphasis on my reason for supporting …show more content…

Exactly what Machiavelli called an “imaginary world” and when he said “Let us leave to one side, then, all discussion of imaginary ruler and talk about practical reality” (MFE-137) . the reality according to Machiavelli is the real nature, a natural way a man would have acted in respond to a situation without without been held back with an excuse of moral or ethics .he believed a Leader should know how to mange that nature. Machiavelli have said it all in one of his statement after he considered how people might have view the world of a ruler without any vices,” now I know everyone would agree that if a ruler could have all the good qualities I have listed and non of the bad ones, then this would an excellent state of affairs” He declared that it can only happen in an imaginary world but we are not living in such world, a “ leader have to be astute enough to avoid being thought to have those evil qualities that would make it impossible for him to retain his power”, He …show more content…

It is a good example of the middle East before and after Iraq invasion. Machiavelli did not argue that a ruler must be deadly,rather He warned rulers to be careful about being compassionate, even though he said “a ruler ought not to mind the disgrace of being called cruel” (MFE-140) but he meant the statement in a good faith, the ruler is been called cruel for being doing his job as a ruler by keeping his subjects peaceful and law be abiding. He said “it is more compassionate to impose harsh punishment on a few than, out of excessive compassion, to allow disorder to spread which lead to murder or looting ” (MFE -140), Machiavelli is actually talking about, what the motive of a good leader must be, even though He encouraged the leader to impose harsh punishments, but only if necessary to keep his subjects in order and when that is the only option left. His ideology on this issue can be relatively compare to some of the middle east leaders, these leader known their people and they known to what measure of discipline it required to rule their country. They imposed harsh punishments, yet they maintain the peace of their region, which makes their people fear them and the necessary rules and regulations were enforce. For example, after the invasion of Iraq and some other part of middle east like Libya, the situation from those region turn from bad to worst. the west now accepted the invasion was a mistake. CNN headline

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