should go about overturning power in a monarchy and ultimately maintaining that.
government and the power within it. Machiavelli feels that the individual should be in .
sole charge of the state, as well as dismissing all members of its former government, to .
avoid a relinquishment of power in the future. Deceiving ones subjects into thinking that .
the individual cares about them so that they will side with the person in times of turmoil, .
rendering the death penalty to all criminals so that they never have an opportunity to .
commit crime again, and steering free from any relation with the church so that this .
ruler's deceptive and fraudulent manners by which they rule will never get publicized, .
are three of Machiavelli's steps which he mentions; Although these steps are immoral .
and dishonest, they are what Machiavelli believes will be the proper way of taking over a .
state. Were Machiavelli's guide lines only potentially successful because of the era in .
which he wrote them?.
Machiavelli's book, "The Prince" was written in the sixteenth century. By then he .
had already achieved power over the state though his position as a diplomat of Florence, .
so he was quite knowledgeable in politics, though it was after the Medici family removed .
him from office that he wrote the book. Machiavelli was ahead of his time as his .
philosophical ideas were too insightful for the average person's intelligence at the time. .
Kearney 3.
His tactics were harsh, though very witty. Machiavelli had only written this book to .
impress the Medici family enough that they would restore his former political position, .
though as it turned out, it became a politician's sidekick in the rough political, and .
corporate, world of today. In contrast with "The Prince", Luke's Gospel had somewhat .
different origins.
Luke's Gospel has a few mysteries behind it: the date it was written and by whom .
it was written. These truths may never be uncovered, though whoever wrote this Gospel .