Machiavelli and Machiavellism in Europe

Machiavelli’s life Niccolò Machiavelli was born on May 3, in 1469 in Florence He mainly lived for politics and patriotism. After the execution of Savonarola, he entered the Florentine government as a secretary and Cesare Borgia succeeded Savonarola. When Medici came to power, Machiavelli was dismissed from office. He tried to gain their favor by writing a book “The Prince”, but Medici didn’t like it. Medici were kicked out of Florence and Machiavelli tried to take position in politics, but was not accepted because of “The Prince”. Sharp downhill of his life began and soon his health deteriorated. Niccolò Machiavelli died in 1527.

The Prince The Prince is a political treatise written by Niccolò Machiavelli, and published in 1513. This work was dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli wrote “the prince” to describe not the character of an ideal prince, but he was trying to give right indications to conquer and keep the power into the nation; also because of the need to create a strong government in Italy that could resist to the supremacy of the European States. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics. The descriptions in The Prince have the general theme of accepting that ends of princes, such as glory, and indeed survival, can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends.

Machiavellism Machiavellian: It relates to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism. It is often characterized by expediency, deceit, and cunning. Machiavellianism: Doctrine, Political Thought of N. Machiavelli, played so often arbitrary, as an affirmation of the priority of the result compared with the methods and means employed to achieve it.

Machiavelli's political thought