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The Prince
By Golgotha Press (corporate author) and Niccolo Machiavelli
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date September 2, 2014
Pages 160
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781501049590
ISBN-10 1501049593
Dimensions 0.50 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight 0.58 lbs.
Original list price $7.99
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics. Although it is relatively short, the treatise is the most remembered of his works and the one most responsible for bringing the word "Machiavellian" into wide usage as a pejorative term. It also helped make "Old Nick" an English term for the devil, and even contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words "politics" and "politician" in western countries. In terms of subject matter it overlaps with the much longer Discourses on Livy, which was written a few years later. In its use of near contemporary Italians as examples of people who perpetrated criminal deeds for politics, another lesser-known work by Machiavelli which The Prince has been compared to is the Life of Castruccio Castracani. The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepting that the aims of princes, such as glory, and indeed survival, can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends. This book includes a biography about the life and times of Niccolò Machiavelli.

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