Still others decided Machiavelli was a satirist, while Rousseau read "The Prince" as a warning: Machiavelli, by dissecting the mechanics of power, was telling people what they ought to fear.
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EVERYTHING in politics comes back to Machiavelli in the end.
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A resurgence of Machiavelli suggests something has gone awfully awry.
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" He adds: "Machiavelli could not do justice to this theme.
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Despite what Machiavelli said, great leaders don't have to be feared.
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Done wrong, Machiavelli warned, it leads to enemies, resentment and downfall.
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It's the Machiavelli principle, to separate and create power from that.
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Machiavelli used to say that you should never build a fortress.
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Machiavelli and Hobbes gave us influential philosophies built on human selfishness.
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Among Machiavelli specialists, Benner is squarely in the good-guy camp.
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Machiavelli also had plenty to say about things that matter today.
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So when you ask "who is Machiavelli," you get the normal answer.
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And the subway will take you to nowhere;Rod Serling meets Machiavelli.
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BE LIKE THE FOX Machiavelli In His WorldBy Erica Benner 360 pp.
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Machiavelli never abandoned hope of returning to serve the city he loved.
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Yes, Machiavelli did say it was better to be feared than loved.
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In "Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear," the French historian Patrick Boucheron joins an estimable list of scholars who have been trying to debunk the crude stereotype of Machiavelli as a fascist enabler and tyrant whisperer.
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And she does apparently read Machiavelli, which, okay, Amma, you do you, girl.
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"M as in Macron or Machiavelli," read one recent headline in Le Monde.
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Niccolò Machiavelli is out in the Tuscan countryside recruiting for a Florentine militia.
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Substantially, this latter position was that of Machiavelli and of Callicles in Plato.
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But Machiavelli would say this is not something that you can count on.
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It's like lining yourself up behind Miss Manners in a political debate against Machiavelli.
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But what is that punishment that Machiavelli notes is so crucial to maintaining control?
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Although Machiavelli is credited with this phrase, the idea was not entirely his own.
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And in 2010's Think Like a Champion, Trump weighed up Machiavelli and Sun Tzu.
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Describing the ideal prince, Machiavelli asked whether it was better to be loved than feared.
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Over the next 14 years, Machiavelli gained political experience, observing up close how power worked.
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The 15th-century Italian diplomat and theorist Niccolò Machiavelli has been resurrected from the dead.
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Machiavelli showed that what is virtuous for the individual may be vicious in the prince.
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The original book took the form of an imagined dialogue between the philosophers Machiavelli and Montesquieu.
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But some boring centrist isn't necessarily the cleverest move for a Machiavelli-like Obama to make.
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At age 7, young Machiavelli began to learn Latin, although his chief works were in Italian.
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People are, as Machiavelli put it, ungrateful and deceitful, timid of danger and avid for profit.
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We'll find out in the finale whether Machiavelli was right, at least in the world of Westeros.
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Not without reason did Machiavelli make Cesare the hero of his masterpiece of sinister machination, "The Prince".
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Machiavelli dedicated his "History of Florence" to his patron Pope Clement VII, declaring himself a "humble slave".
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MODERNITY AND ITS DISCONTENTSMaking and Unmaking the Bourgeois From Machiavelli to Bellow By Steven B. Smith402 pp.
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In 1498, Machiavelli won appointment as supervisor of Florence's diplomatic office and secretary to its military committee.
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On his recruitment trip, Machiavelli somehow found enough peasants to parade 400 militiamen through Florence's main square.
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An earlier version of this article misspelled the first name of the Renaissance Italian political scientist Machiavelli.
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What they want from him in his final years in office is less Machiavelli, and more morality. ■
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"Those best at playing the fox have done better than the others," Machiavelli wrote, speaking of the powerful.
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But under the influence of Machiavelli and Locke, the men who founded our system made two fateful errors.
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Plato, Confucius, and the poet (or poets) who wrote the Bhagavad Gita thought about leadership; so did Machiavelli.
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It's an irony that wouldn't have been lost on Machiavelli, whom Boucheron deems an inveterate dramatist and irrepressible trickster.
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Aside from Hegel and Marx, Debord also references György Lukács, William Shakespeare, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Niccolò Machiavelli.
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Eva is a Machiavelli of the heart: avoiding the agony of another failed love justifies whatever duplicity is necessary.
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Like the moralist Nietzsche, who also spun off disconcerting and misquotable epigrams, Machiavelli is at once overfamiliar and obscure.
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"IT IS much safer to be feared than loved" if one wants to hold onto power, Machiavelli famously advised rulers.
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In chapter 25 of his seminal treatise on power and statesmanship, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli lays out a philosophical conundrum.
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Now Siri knows to respond with directions to the restaurant and not to the actual castle where Machiavelli was imprisoned.
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"He wants to be both lion and fox," said Jean-Yves Boriaud, a Machiavelli specialist at the University of Nantes.
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Benner brings Machiavelli alive by weaving his words and those of his contemporaries into the narrative as a playwright might.
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Ultimately, Mr. Salvini, with a performance Machiavelli would be proud of, accepted and gained plenty of influence in the government.
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"As it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved," Machiavelli writes.
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Though an avid reader — his dresser is buried under psychology classics, as varied as Dale Carnegie and Machiavelli — he failed English.
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No one will ever mistake Donald Trump for Machiavelli, but the current president probably thinks of himself as a political magician.
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He said that his mother was a descendant of Niccolo Machiavelli and that his father's ancestors had helped found Milford, Conn.
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Editors' Choice Machiavelli certainly knew about seduction of a sort, the kind that can be used to seize and maintain power.
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The key thing for Machiavelli was always to value the rule of law — that's the key thing for citizens to do.
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Storey's heroic foils are convincing, as are the cameo appearances of the pair's famous contemporaries Sandro Botticelli, Cesare Borgia and Niccolò Machiavelli.
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But Rosenstein is either a modern day Machiavelli or he is the most oblivious person to ever hold such a high position.
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Boucheron invites us to think through how Machiavelli became synonymous with unscrupulous despotism when the real man suffered for his republican allegiances.
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Prince Muhammad may be heeding the dictum of Niccolò Machiavelli that it is better for a prince to be feared than loved.
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In applauding the tactics of the notorious Cesare Borgia, the model for The Prince, Machiavelli described the key to the Trickster's success.
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The Faked Death TheoryBefore his death Tupac assumed the moniker Makaveli, drawing inspiration from the philosophies and militaristic strategies of Niccolò Machiavelli.
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It's Machiavelli meets the internet, and in the contemporary instant gratification/advertising/spin culture, what "wins" is whatever works for the moment.
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Niccolo Machiavelli -- Florence's infamous diplomat, politician and master of duplicity -- might have factored into May's thinking when selecting a location for speech.
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He initially campaigned for Machiavelli, in honor of his favorite rapper, Tupac Shakur, who nicknamed himself for the 221.74th century Italian philosopher.
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Vivid episodes like that dot Erica Benner's erudite and engaging life of Machiavelli (15123-1527), a leading bad boy of political ideas.
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At each major turn in Brazil's political crisis in the past year, the recordings are revealing tactics that would make Machiavelli proud.
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The key question for Machiavelli, apart from all the philosophical questions about human nature, is how to defend democracy or a republic.
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Strauss devoted most of his life to closely argued and eccentric exegeses of classic texts by writers like Plato, Maimonides, Machiavelli, and Hobbes.
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At the time, Machiavelli was an envoy for the Florentine Republic, negotiating to keep the infamous warlord Cesare Borgia from attacking the city.
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Though a caricature emerged of her as a Machiavelli in heels, scheming her ascent, to others she seemed more desirous of powerful obscurity.
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In real life, Frank Underwood would've been akin to a mix of Charles Manson and Richard Nixon gifted with the mind of Machiavelli.
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Modern scholarship has added layers of interpretive subtlety but never quite escaped the pull of that polar contrast: Machiavelli, good guy or bad?
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Knocking the Appalachian Machiavelli off his perch might do even more to resuscitate progressive government than sending Trump back to his glitzy resorts.
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Wasn't it Machiavelli — or some other Italian with a similar-sounding name — who said, "it is much safer to be feared than loved"?
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Only Lucrezia seems to flourish, although we learn about this somewhat after-the-fact in the epilogue, narrated by Machiavelli in later life.
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Now, Machiavelli maintained that a political leader of virtue could fortify this quality in the citizenry, while a corrupt one could destroy it completely.
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Even Machiavelli, however, insisted that one must avoid lying too much, because people will stop believing you, and your lies will no longer work.
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He used his training not in the academy but in Florentine government, where he served as the assistant to another great innovator, Niccolò Machiavelli.
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Alongside the usual martial authorities (Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Clausewitz), the anthology includes an essay by Virginia Woolf and an interview with Jean Renoir.
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He conveys the grandiose manner of many older gang members, and their attraction to pseudo-intellectual sophistry (one character considers himself an acolyte of Machiavelli).
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A cleareyed reading of the novel, however, suggests that his view of democracy has much in common with that of Machiavelli, Sidney, Emerson and Truman.
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They arrived six days before the show and settled into a temporary headquarters, a series of chambers underneath the show venue, on the Viale Machiavelli.
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It's an atmosphere you'd expect to find created by murder mystery author Agatha Christie or Italian diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli more so than our Founding Fathers.
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If Parliament rejects her Brexit deal, a confidence vote may be in the offing, predicts one backbench Machiavelli who steered clear of Mr Rees-Mogg's plot.
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William Bradshaw, the elder of the Reform Church, also brought copies of The Prince by Machiavelli and Problems by Aristotle over with him on the Mayflower.
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Characterized variously as the "Machiavelli of Nonviolence" and the "Clausewitz of Nonviolent Warfare," Mr. Sharp argued that nonviolent resistance draws its strength from basic human nature.
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The little book ensured Machiavelli an afterlife in which author and reputation blurred into a single object of obloquy or celebration, depending on where you stood.
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Happily for nonspecialist readers, "Be Like the Fox" presumes rather than argues scholastically for that approach to Machiavelli, which is at least as old as Rousseau.
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Machiavelli now made his entry into public life, but only after the fall and execution of Savonarola, a puritanical friar who dominated the republic's first years.
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It was a home full of art and argument, he recalls, where dinner-table conversation was likely to include discussion of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and St. Augustine.
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This may sound Machiavellian, but Niccolò Machiavelli also argued that men need to be either well treated or crushed: Lighter injuries generate revenge, and eventually backlash.
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The protagonist of this story was turning out to be as complicated as the central figure in the last book they read: "The Prince," by Machiavelli.
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Erica Benner, a professor of political philosophy at Yale, writes about all of this in her new book Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World.
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People who once dismissed Rao as a pushover began likening him to Kautilya, the Mauryan empire's strategist who wrote a book on statecraft a millennium before Machiavelli.
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In his book The Prince, Machiavelli argues that people will always honor and and praise the means a prince uses in order to reach a greater end.
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He was born on March 20073, 1928, in Brussels to an expatriate American father, Willard Hudson Botsford, and an Italian mother, Carolina Elena Rangoni-Machiavelli-Publicola-Santacroce.
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"It is much safer to be feared than to be loved" Machiavelli wrote, an observation that the Russian leader and generations of his predecessors have taken to heart.
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He draws upon phrases from the librettos Beethoven went through in earlier versions of his opera, and also adapts texts from Machiavelli, Jeremy Bentham and other pertinent sources.
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Two books about China examine the world from the perspective of a rising superpower, while a new biography of Machiavelli investigates the superpowers of one very influential individual.
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Machiavelli was among the first to popularize this notion that perceptions matter more than reality, that a cunning leader should bend the truth to his or her will.
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These dreadful, Machiavelli-inspired lines were nearly salvaged by the somber, wistful music that accompanied them, which evoked a man knowingly caught in a cycle that cannot be broken.
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In fact, he argues, this view of human nature is an invention of modernity, handed down to us by influential Enlightenment philosophers like Adam Smith, Machiavelli, and Thomas Hobbes.
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We can count on it as an immutable law of history: in any space where fame and fortune and power are up for grabs, Machiavelli eventually makes his appearance.
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His ideas are informed by Olavo de Carvalho, a philosopher and a former astrologer who has attracted a following with eccentric interpretations of works by Machiavelli, Descartes, and others.
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"He thinks he is Machiavelli but he acts more like Mussolini," said Bruce Riedel, a scholar at the Brookings Institution and a former official in the Central Intelligence Agency.
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More serious commentators have compared the president with Napoléon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle, both of whom succeeded in reforming France as newcomers to politics, and even to Machiavelli.
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Last year, a high-ranking member of the Bloods, known as Machiavelli, was sentenced to 22011 years in prison for the 22016 killing of Gola White's son Doneil White.
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In the midst of all this, the Borgias have risen, a family with a talent for conquest — just the sort of people to captivate Machiavelli, the master of expediency.
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Fuck some co-workers over, start a couple of rumors about your colleagues on the sly, skim-read the Wikipedia page for "Machiavelli" and start dressing better than your boss.
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Notwithstanding his failure to successfully exert his power in global affairs, many of my students are still inclined to believe that President Trump is the embodied wisdom of Niccolò Machiavelli.
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Sansa Stark, once the show's naïf, has become the show's aspiring Machiavelli, a transformation borne from her suffering at the hands of people like Cersei, from whom she learned much.
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Just within the Western tradition, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon, Hobbes, Cavendish, Montesquieu, Wollstonecraft and, yes, Ben Franklin, not to mention most of the great novelists and scientists, all called for it.
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When you look at societies like America and Britain and various other liberal democracies, you see the kinds of cracks that Machiavelli warned about — and it ought to trouble us.
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When you look at societies like America and Britain and various other liberal democracies you see the kinds of cracks that Machiavelli warned about — and it ought to trouble us.
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Bannon, often seen as the hidden Machiavelli of the West Wing and the guardian of Trump's unique political philosophy, showed how the billionaire has changed the ideological tilt of the GOP.
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Sometimes the bad woman turns out to be secretly cold, like the Baroness with her villainous plan to send the von Trapp children to boarding school ("Baroness Machiavelli!" another character exclaims).
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They cover countless topics, from the effects of labour automation in America to the philosophy of Benedetto Croce, the works of Machiavelli and the essential elements of a state education system.
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Renzi supporters accused their opponents of framing them, saying M5S had saved the scandal-plagued Berlusconi to smear the government in a plot worthy of the wily Renaissance diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Machiavelli, who introduced republican thinking to the modern world, viewed political time as cyclical, and also ironic: The stronger a republic grew, the more susceptible it became to corruption and decay.
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In that Renaissance document, debated for centuries, Machiavelli argued that a politician should seek to be feared rather than loved, and that sometimes a leader must lie to achieve his ends.
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" Machiavelli observed that it is best to be loved and feared, "but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved.
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"Machiavellian" is another shorthand that inverts its namesake, even if the Renaissance statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli still gets cast in the popular imagination as a cynical proponent of ruthless power politics.
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Florence might be just the ticket: plenty of history, not just the political dark arts of Machiavelli, for a crafty speechwriter to weave into her own narrative for the future of Europe.
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Antony Jay, whose keen appreciation of Machiavelli and corporate behavior helped make the 21970s British television series "Yes Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" instant classics of political satire, died on Aug. 21972.
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No one cared much about his sales except for Jamal Smalls, a leader of the Bloods gang who was nicknamed Poo Black (a spin on Winnie the Pooh) and Mack (for Machiavelli).
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New fiction can take you almost anywhere you want to go this week, from 1980s Athens to 19th-century Edinburgh to the Italy of the scheming Borgias and even more scheming Machiavelli.
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Viewing him as an approximation to the great Italian theorist of Niccolò Machiavelli, his theories on governance will prove essential to a successful Targaryen rule, using pragmatic systems to bring order to disorder.
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Lang also mentioned in his program notes that he sought to further explore these themes by incorporating ideas from the political theorists Jeremy Bentham, Machiavelli, and Hannah Arendt into the libretto and dramaturgy.
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Each of them brow-beats Boris with their own views on Brexit, and he seems to emerge from these encounters not as a scheming Machiavelli but as a man tormented by contradictory advice.
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So like Machiavelli, getting back to your Florentine example, you know he cites very specific examples about the, you know, the Ghibellines or whatever faction, but the point is that's a general principle.
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Sure, you can't twirl a Miss Universe baton on Capitol Hill without hitting an extremely ambitious, calculating Machiavelli with big dreams and an even a bigger sense of their own place in history.
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My interview with Yale philosopher Erica Benner about what the writings of 16th-century Italian writer Niccolò Machiavelli can teach us about Trump and liberal democracy was fascinating and definitely worth a read.
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For Mrs May, it was Nick Timothy, a bald Machiavelli who fell out with David Cameron while in government and spent a hiatus from politics composing forthright blogposts, before finding himself in Downing Street.
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For Mr Johnson, it is Dominic Cummings, a bald Machiavelli who fell out with David Cameron while in government and spent a hiatus from politics composing forthright blogposts, before finding himself in Downing Street.
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Machiavelli noted that the failure of many city states in early modern Italy was due to their lack of strategic supplies in times of conflict, a lesson which Britain learned following two world wars.
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"Everyone wants to become the big man," says a taxi-driver, as he crams a "Guide to the Corporate Machiavelli" and "The Power of Self-Discipline" into the seat pockets of his old SUV.
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He inspected fortresses, made maps, and designed weapons—he may also have acted as a spy for Florence—as Borgia conquered towns through central Italy in a trail of slaughter that rattled even Machiavelli.
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To date, an increasingly angry President has yet to start World War III, so it is possible the constraints are working, but will 2019 bring about the unmasking of this anonymous modern-day Machiavelli?
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In 1498, after a coup and a strange, four-year reign by the Dominican friar Savonarola, the 29-year-old Machiavelli ascended to a government post that put him in charge of Florence's foreign affairs.
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"The President wanted his own Roy Cohn and apparently he got one," the California Democrat said, comparing Barr to the New York attorney and Machiavelli who had mentored Trump as a rising real estate kingpin.
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One thing Machiavelli tries to do is to get citizens to see through the tricks that politicians use to get one over on them and to manipulate them into submission and a more uncritical stance.
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Civic republicans like Machiavelli and the Greeks believed in a democratic community in which the dual responsibilities of the citizen were participation in politics — meaning you vote and you run for office — and defending the community.
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This way, the issue would be put to rest forever, and he could carry on with his important work of emitting strange plumy choking noises unperturbed, going down in the history books as Britain's milkiest Machiavelli.
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This April, two months after he demoted Bannon following a spate of stories alleging that Bannon was the real power behind the throne, Trump told The New York Post that Bannon was overrated, more Falstaff than Machiavelli.
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According to a Public Religion Research Institute survey, 72 percent of white evangelicals believe that a person who is immoral in private life can be an effective national leader, a belief that is more Machiavelli than Matthew.
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Not for no reason do Italians arrive sounding like Machiavelli, talking about their injuries, their aging defense, their barren strikers, their depleted midfield from which, above all else, there is no creator like the now semiretired Andrea Pirlo.
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But instead of dwelling on scholarly niceties, discussions of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Virginia Woolf and Simón Bolívar are designed to engage participants on a personal level, inviting them to reflect on the manner in which they conduct their lives.
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Indeed, the classical realists — Thucydides, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Thomas Hobbes — and their 20th-century counterparts, such as Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr, understood that the history of international relations was in large measure a story of precisely such tragedies.
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Machiavelli's "The Prince" is famous for its cool espousal of political expediency, but for fifteen years before Machiavelli wrote it, in 1513, he championed popular republicanism, working tirelessly, if ultimately unsuccessfully, to prevent Florence from returning to Medici rule.
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The war room will be helmed by Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist — and the man whom some members of Trump's base see as a keeper of the president's populist flame, even as his detractors portray him as a hard-right Machiavelli.
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This recalls the famous Machiavelli passage from which the Chicago Council's question is adapted — which will, in a sense, also be on the ballot in November: whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.
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But if politics is only about power unbounded by morality — if it's simply about rulers governing by the law of the jungle, about a prince acting like a beast, in the words of Machiavelli — then the whole enterprise will collapse.
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Plato, Aristotle and Machiavelli all knew that more was needed, whether that meant enshrining constitutional rules to avoid the arbitrary exercise of power, imposing standards of behavior on elected officials or supporting a healthy ambivalence toward rulers by the ruled.
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He was not above savage displays of power consistent with the so-called laws of the jungle, but insofar as a prince needed "to know well how to use the beast," Machiavelli counseled him to channel both the lion and the fox.
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" So: Roger Stone, a contemporary conspiracy monger and Trump political consultant; Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher; Niccolò Machiavelli, a Renaissance Italian political scientist and public official; and Hannah Arendt, a 20th century political theorist who coined the phrase, "the banality of evil.
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Drawing from disparate political histories involving the Medicis, Hitler, Alexander Hamilton, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Osama bin Laden, the Machiavelli of the future, with Henry Kissinger as his sidekick, delivers a warning about abuses of power and lapses of political judgment.
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Macron's efforts, however, could come to naught because another "Duke of Milan" (Machiavelli used to work for Milan's Duke Francesco Sforza) will be showing a stunning political comeback next March -- and he is leading a group of euro-skeptics dead-set against French-German shenanigans.
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Despite what Machiavelli said, great leaders don't have to be feared, they just need to listen, Blake explains to CNBC Make It. And while Brady might appreciate feedback, his fraying relationship with the coaching staff may exemplify the risks of this unforgiving management approach.
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No less a student of politics than Niccolò Machiavelli believed that it was "impossible for a corrupted people to set up a good government, or for a tyranny to be introduced if they be virtuous," as Algernon Sidney, the 17th-century English politician, put it.
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It's true that a belief in cultural and moral decline often unites the right—but even here, there's very little agreement on the exact date of the catastrophic moment: Was it the 22009s, the New Deal, the 83s, the political philosophy of Machiavelli or Hobbes?
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Aaron Traywick (left) and Machiavelli Davis, production specialist at Ascendance Biomedical Aaron Traywick, a biohacker who once injected himself with an untested herpes therapy on a crusade to expand access to medications, was found dead on Sunday morning in Washington, DC, police confirmed to BuzzFeed News.
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For Mr. Deneen, liberalism was created the moment proto-modern thinkers such as Machiavelli proposed grounding a political philosophy upon "human behaviors of pride, selfishness, greed, and the quest for glory," rather than the principles of self-restraint that characterized political discourse in medieval and classical times.
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Holiday is nothing if not erudite; every time you turn around in "Conspiracy," he is trying to make profound points by quoting from a vast range of philosophers, statesmen and Great Thinkers — everyone from Machiavelli and Seneca to Kierkegaard and George W.S. Trow, and on and on.
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By those arts, Machiavelli did not merely have in mind the ability to tell a lie — a talent for which Trump has proven himself so gifted he tells them even when they're unnecessary — but a kind of social dexterity that allows one to be strategic in his behavior.
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Alain de Benoist, the sage of the late-1970s "New Right," was correct to say, in an interview with Sputnik France, that these gilets jaunes protests had reacquainted people with an idea of the "common good" that can be found in the works of Livy, Machiavelli, and James Harrington.
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In addition to "Management and Machiavelli," which Forbes magazine called "among the most provocative and perceptive books ever written on the subject of management," he wrote "Effective Presentation: The Communication of Ideas by Words and Visual Aids" (1970) and "The Householder's Guide to Community Defense Against Bureaucratic Aggression" (1972).
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Barry and Smith argue that civic republicanism and green politics share the same basic view of the human condition, one mostly missing from the liberal canon: a sense of human vulnerability—either to climate change or to the vagaries of random political chance, which Machiavelli famously called fortuna.
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Armed with a few years of Western Civ and a Machiavelli crush acquired through his undergraduate and Master's studies, he undertook the role of highbrow window-dresser, sprinkling pinches of erudition like the world's most perfunctory fire retardant over the dumpster blaze of the early Trump White House.
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Thousands of years ago SunTzu (The Art of War) wrote of defeating an enemy without fighting; during the Renaissance Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince) spoke of limited war; and two hundred years ago Carl von Clausewitz (On War) recognized "people's wars" (Landsturm) and political violence, components of modern guerilla warfare.
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Unless, that is, you already know a great deal about the Battle of Lepanto, the Beat poets, kabbalah, the works of Machiavelli (referred to only as "a certain clerk of Florence"), who a haseki sultan might be, what a janissary might do, what it means for an "ictus" to suddenly come upon someone.
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If somebody wants to set themselves up as a savior in troubled times, he will always find people to support him, and he'll find it easier to acquire that support if he plays the sorts of games Machiavelli describes in The Prince — namely, using deception in order to exploit people for political gain.
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" —Erica Benner, author of Be Like Fox: Machiavelli in His World "The idea of happiness we now have, this pursuit of authenticity and personal freedom, may have once been a genuinely noble goal, but over time, these values have been co-opted and transformed and used to normalize a deeply unjust and undesirable situation.
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He's divided his survey into two parts: The first covers writers he regards as quintessentially "modern" in their attitudes, from Machiavelli to Hegel; the second covers writers more attuned to pessimistic doubts about the modern world, including Rousseau, Tocqueville, Nietzsche and the two 20th-century critics of the Enlightenment that he perhaps most admires, Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss.
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In his books "Management and Machiavelli: An Inquiry Into the Politics of Corporate Life" (21986) and "Corporation Man" (22010), he drew parallels between kings and business leaders; as a writer and producer of management training films for Video Arts, a company he founded with the comic actor John Cleese, he was practiced in mining corporate culture for comedic effect.
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If you needed someone to explain to you that Frank Underwood, the antihero of "House of Cards," owes something to Machiavelli; that "Mad Men" is "shorthand for Madison Avenue men"; that movie spectacles ask us to "switch off our brains"; and that modern television has exploded "the old idea of a single auteur," then by all means hunker down.
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While we certainly learned that under his control the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance resembled less a multiheaded manufacturing colossus and more a Byzantine empire for the globalism age, with courts on multiple continents and an accounting structure that would have impressed Machiavelli, we also learned that getting arrested in Japan isn&apost like getting arrested in America or Europe.
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Usually attributed to Hobbes, its line goes to thinkers like Machiavelli, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, to al-Ghazelli in the Muslim world, to the Roman Law dictum that "Whatever the prince wills is the law," and finally to post-Aristotelian philosophy, especially Epicurus and Democritus, who withdrew from the city of reason as it was found in Plato and Aristotle.
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After Mr. Trump tweeted the "jobs, not mobs" meme, the creator of the image — a Reddit user who goes by the online pen name "Bryan Machiavelli" and who declined to be interviewed unless The New York Times paid him $200 an hour for his "memetic warfare consulting" services — wrote on Reddit that attention from the president was its own reward.
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Gaddis believes the best way to hone strategic thinking is not just by mastering the advice of Machiavelli or Clausewitz (who both figure prominently in the class), much less contemporary high-tech wizardry, but also by understanding the interplay of history, literature and philosophy over 2,500 years of Western civilization — with occasional insights from Sun Tzu and other non-Western thinkers.
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