BS-140PHPhilosophy & Meaning
The Prince
El príncipe
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- PH · BS-140
- Language
- English
- Physical copies
- 1
- Publisher
- Penguin USA
- Published
- 1961
- Verification
- Verified
What it is about
Written after Niccolò Machiavelli’s removal from Florentine political life, The Prince analyzes how rulers acquire, stabilize, and lose states. Through Roman history and contemporary Italian examples, it examines force, law, reputation, counsel, popular support, cruelty, military capacity, virtù, and fortuna. Its unsettling power comes from treating political survival as a practical field whose requirements may conflict with conventional private morality. I need this book close whenever I start thinking the question has become simple.
Why I keep it
The Prince. I keep it to recognise princes.
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