The Power And The Principe Of Nicolás Machiavelo

THE POWER AND THE PRINCIPE OF NICOLÁS MACHIAVELO

"The prince" is a work written by the political philosopher and Italian writer, Nicolás Machiavelli. It tells us that when people want above all things to obtain power over the world, unfortunately, both benefit and authorship produces unimaginable consequences.

Power has seduced man since the most remote times.

The origin and practice of power has been irregular through the history of civilization, however no one had approached to discover the nature of power as real as Nicolás Machiavelli, however, today this discipline has been perfectedMuch more, the notion of Machiavelli and his book, is that of cynicism as an inevitable attitude in government tasks and expressed everything he had gathered during his life by observing governments, looking at what failed and what they succeeded.

The prince is a kind of government manual, at that time the most common government system was that of the feudal lords, called princes. The author talks about each of the situations that happen between the different governments, the way of governing their states and the correct way in which it must be governed to maintain that stability between state and prince.

From the beginning, Machiavelli talks about the types of governments (principalities) that may exist, such as new, hereditary, ecclesiastics and mixed. Most of the events occurred in Italy, Spain and France, also gives examples of situations that happened at that time, one of these situations can be seen in the case of the papals and about the reign of Fernando de Aragón, which were contemporariesto the.

The work was clearly exclusive to the princes of the time, although it could be dealt with in some modern characteristics, since Machiavelli is entered into the mind of man and how he would react in various situations, man would act equal to how he acted centuries ago and an exampleCurrent could be Iraq. For Machiavelli the political ends were inseparable from the ‘common good’. The good of the State is not subordinated to the good of the individual or the human person in any case, and its end is above all particular purposes for more desirable that are considered. And the prince, as a conqueror and owner of power, in how much incarnation of the State, is in principle exempt from any moral norm. The important thing is that you have natural conditions to ensure the conquest and possession of power.

Machiavelli also talks about the people of which you have to take care of yourself, and about the people you have to trust. Of course everything he says, supports him exemplifying historical facts, which support his thesis.

The good of the State does not submit to the good of the individual or the human person in any case. The meaning of life and history does not end for men if they continue in the task of perfecting society on rational basis that transcend them, beyond the simple individualistic or social atomization plane in which they live within the societies ofEnd of the 20th century.

This manual is important for anyone who wants to govern and not be hated at the same time. The work represents an interesting perspective to understand the social and political evolution of the modern world emerged in the Renaissance.

Machiavelli was not a bad man. On the contrary, it was rather a supporter of republican institutions, which he perceived more than the rest of his countrymen.

Personally, I think it was Machiavelli’s realism that allowed to diagnose the meaning of the European order, establish the ideological purposes that agreed to the community of which it was part and indicate the efficient means to achieve them from the real situations that predominatedIn the Italy of his time.