Machiavelli in all cases is implying that “the means” matter, and “the ends” don’t magically justify them, yet sometimes it is worth accepting all the ramifications of “unjustifiable means,” and the damage they do to one’s reputation, for the end goal.In other words the ends don...
According to Machiavelli, the ends always justify the means—no matter how cruel, calculating or immoral those means might be. Tony Soprano and Shakespeare’s Macbeth may be well-known Machiavellian characters, but the man whose name inspired the term, Niccolo Machiavelli, didn’t operate by his...
2. Which of the following ideas do NOT agree with the overall argument found inThe Prince? An effective ruler sometimes needs to be cruel. It's better to be loved than feared. The ends justify the means. An effective ruler must be skilled in the art of war. ...
马基雅维利 - 政治与道德的分离Machiavelli - The Separation of Politics and Morality权力往往与道德无关。Power often disregards morality.在政治中,结果往往比手段更重要。In politics, ends often justify the means.道德是为弱者准备的,而非权力的拥有者。Morality is for the weak, not the powerful.政治家...
Bing, S. What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness. New York: HarperBusiness, 2000.Bing, S. What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justifies the Meanness. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
I am sure we are all familiar with Machiavelli's book The Prince. He says ends justify the means. But higher rating doesn't justify current system to handle cheaters. Cheater can send in code and get his rating skipped if he do bad, and if he do well he profit. We need negative pen...
and that he did not defend the 'Machiavellian' maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory, Erica Benner gives the most complete account yet of Machiavelli's thought. She argues that his difficult and puzzling style of writi...
And so the rest of the review and the book, we must infer, is senseless. One curious statement is that "Machiavelli, in Mr. Boucheron's analysis, never held that ends justify the means." Again, this statement is a very confused way to represent Machiavelli. As we have seen, the issue...
Born into a time when self serving aspirations in the name of thepublic well being were the norm of public life, Niccolo Machiavelli wrotehis two discourses on public government as a means of demonstrating thedifferences between moral, and immoral governments, and then as an attemptto curry f....
Invisible Ends Justify Secret Means: Homeland, Machiavelli, and the Least of All Possible Evils This contribution offers a fresh analysis of Homeland , a popular TV series distributed by Showtime, based on the perspective of contemporary philosophers ... G Tagliani 被引量: 0发表: 2021年 Morals...