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Essay: Machiavelli
A deeper analysis of Machiavelli's prescriptions will reveal that -indeed- he does not disregard the concept of virtue, but deconstructs that concept providing his own alternativedefinitions.
His most political works were the Prince and the Discourses of the ten books of Titus Livius, both begun and largely finished in 1513.
Machiavelli has been especially known such asindifference to the use in immoral means for political purposes and the belief that government depends largely on force and craft, for him the purpose of politics was to preserve and increase politicalpower itself.
The philosophical foundations provided by Machiavelli's position on virtue also provide the foundations for the Realist approach to International Relations; Machiavelli analyses interms of agents competing for power and his basic assumption is that human nature is bad. Machiavelli's deconstruction is also based on the notion that appearances might be deceptive: what appears to begood might actually be bad and vice versa.
Machiavelli's philosophy is also essentially utilitarian; for him the end always justifies the means. Machiavelli's advice to rulers generally aims atachieving positive consequences for as many as possible (usually both the ruler and the majority of his subjects).
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In understanding Machiavelli's argument that a ruler should not always be virtuous,one should consider that The Prince is characterized by a conscious effort on the part of its author to say things as they are, in fact rather than as they ought to be in theory: I shall set asidefantasies about rulers, and consider what happens in fact. Machiavelli lists the virtues that are generally held to be desirable and the vices that are generally held to be undesirable. He comments thateven if a human being could have all these virtues (which is close to impossible) the circumstances make it hard to be virtuous. Therefore, what one should do in practice is to be careful not to...