... , he can have not only 'the real thing' but the abundance of the reconstructed truth." (Eco, 448) The visitors show conformity and relation to Machiavelli because they believe that these "false cities" are really great. The visitors show Machiavellian ideology: they choose to go to "fake cities" and spend money there ... . The visitors also show relation to Machiavelli in that they control the makers of the "false cities". Americans who travel to visit these false realities are very much conformists and also products of ... go to a party and once there, was somewhat pressured into tryin...

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... the expression: "the end justifies the means" which is a very short summary of the main idea of this ethical approach. The term Machiavellianism derives from renaissance thinker Niccolo Machiavelli who was an advisor of the royal family of Florence. Many consider Machiavellianism as an immoral ethical theory. The reason for that is the promotion of trickery, duplicity, hypocrisy, spying ... and other dirty methods for gaining more power that is what Machiavelli describes in his book "the Prince". In his book the renaissance thinker clearly expresses his point of view in terms of politic...

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