HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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a prince should always honor his word
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a ruler should behave based on Christian principles.
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politics should not be influenced by moral principles.
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a nobleman should live a life of virtue
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Detailed explanation-1: -Machiavelli believed that a leader had to understand public and private morality as two different things in order to rule well. As a result, a ruler must be concerned not only with reputation, but also must be positively willing to act immorally at the right times.
Detailed explanation-2: -Among the precepts espoused by Machiavelli: leaders should always mask their true intentions, avoid inconsistency, and frequently “act against mercy, against faith, against humanity, against frankness, against religion, in order to preserve the state.” His name has become synonymous with cunning tyrants.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the real-life models Machiavelli took inspiration from when writing The Prince was Cesare Borgia, a crude, brutal and cunning prince of the Papal States whom Machiavelli had observed first-hand.