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Consider and discuss the nature of the work

To understand The Prince is necessary to assume it in the sense of its nature: that is, as a political essay. From this it is understood that Machiavelli's intentions may be different, depending on the perspective that the reader assume the written, on one hand can as a guide to effective governance, can also be understood as an approach to the reality of government Italian Renaissance in crisis territorial, economic, social and political. The more adventurous might see in the work a kind of satire disguised aggrandizement, refusing to believe in the coldness with which Machiavelli suggests meanest measures of control and domination, and some would think that this is a true celebration of tyranny. Whatever position the reader want to take, the work can be considered to analyze the political landscape today, to glimpse if the controversial feature of the work is still felt in our executive and legislative.

 

Discuss the possibility of virtue to govern morally not always the conventional

Throughout the play, Machiavelli insists that what is apparently good man's character may be useless for the ruler and ventures to justify, even boast, criminal acts such as the slaughter of entire peoples, if this serves to conservation of the principality. In this sense, the moral change or be changed to aid and apologize to those who are required to run a state? Could it be...

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