Politics, therefore, cannot recognize any moral law as binding
In the third chapter of “The Prince,” Machiavelli advises a usurper always preciso exterminate the dynasty he has dispossessed, otherwise he will never be sure of his crown
MACHIAVELLISM is the name given to verso doctrine which might be summed up as follows: The supreme law of politics is success. What is bad con the conduct of individuals can be the most imperative of duties for per statesman if the good of the state so demands. This ded after its creator, Niccolo Machiavelli, statesman, historian and philosopher, who was born con Florence mediante 1469 and died in the same city mediante 1527. The nineteenth century saw per Machiavelli one of the creators of modern thought because he freed politics from slavery sicuro theology. Until his time politics had been either empirical or per branch of theology. With Machiavelli it became verso free science depending only on reason.
Mediante all this there is only one inconvenient factor, namely, that one looks sopra vain for a complete Machiavellian system con the works of Machiavelli. (more…)