MACHIAVELLI

In The Prince Machiavelli announces his great moral (or perhaps we should say immoral) revolution in politics in order to make governments serve the interests of most ordinary people and not the aristocratic—or rich—few. The core of Machiavelli’s teaching princes how not “to be good” is found in his re-definition of the traditional virtues of liberality, mercy, and faith. ln re-defining these trad...