The Prince 8+

📒 Parody or Truth: Power Corrupts By (Mis)UseThe Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. ""Machiavellianism"" is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The Prince. The book itself gained notoriety when some readers claimed that the author was teaching evil, and providing ""evil recommendations to tyrants to help them maintain their power."" The term ""Machiavellian"" is often associated with political deceit, deviousness, and realpolitik. The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepting that the aims of princes-such as glory and survival-can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends:He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.Get Your Copy Today