Machiavelli's "The Prince" chapter 18--In What Way Princes Should Keep Their Word
Title: Machiavelli's "The Prince" chapter 18--In What Way Princes Should Keep Their Word
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 628 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Machiavelli's "The Prince" chapter 18--In What Way Princes Should Keep Their Word
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 628 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
IN WHAT WAY PRINCES SHOULD KEEP THEIR WORD
Although frankness is praised over craftiness, history shows that leaders who practiced
deceit overcame those that lived by their pledges. There can be identified two ways of
fighting: by law, which is proper for men and by force, which is proper for animals. A prince
must know how to fight both ways in order to be successful. Furthermore a price is competing
as an animal both sly
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whole, it is most praiseworthy of a prince to be considered trustworthy and not
be cunning. Nevertheless, in real life, princes that used cunning are always more successful
than those princes that are always be trusted fully. Everything a prince says must be filled
with these five qualities: being merciful, be trustworthy, being religious, being kind, and lastly
being honest. A prince should exhibit these five main virtues for keeping the authority,
should not he?