Coffee With Niccolò Machiavelli: Half An Hour Alone With "The Ends Justify The Means": COFFEE WITH...

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Who Is Machiavelli?
Have you always wanted to know the ideas of the great thinkers of Humanity and never found the time to make it happen? Did it discourage you to think that it would take you years to know the fundamentals about the greatest authors? So this book is for you. Treasures for life, in less than the duration of a movie, the essentials of the most important ideologues in history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Dec 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201905767

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Coffee With Niccolò Machiavelli: Half An Hour Alone With The Ends Justify The Means

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COFFEE WITH NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI: HALF AN HOUR ALONE WITH THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS

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WHO IS MACHIAVELLI

Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527): Italian politician and thinker, he was the first modern political scientist. A man of practical experience, as a diplomat he wrote The Prince in 1515, a work in which he gave advice to the rulers of Florence (the Medici) to achieve the unity of Italy, a country that was fragmented into small independent city-states and that for that reason it was harmed by the unity of its neighbors (France, England, etc). In his work, he described - not what rulers should do - but what they actually do. Thus, Machiavelli was the first theorist of power politics: the more power a Prince (understood as any ruler) has, the more likely he is to survive. A ruler must be willing to do anything to obtain, retain, and increase his power: the end justifies the means. Putting morals aside, he described politics in terms of causes and effects, simplifying everything into a few elements and laws (much like the great natural scientists of the 16th and 17th centuries). In this way, Machiavelli exposed the methods of obtaining and conserving power as a way to strengthen the state. For this, he proposed to revalue the earthly and man, so long subordinate to God. The man could from then on change things and be different. Politics should be a human activity and society should be ordered by the state. Machiavelli vindicated the violence of the State, because without it it would not be possible to order the society of men. But he warned that he should not abuse it - because there is a risk of a rebellion -: what must be done is to combine it with the search for the support of the governed. Thus, the science of politics consists in combining force on the people (coercion) with the force of the people (consensus), for example in laws, which are mandatory (coercion), but accepted by all (consensus). His central questions were how to achieve the sympathy of the people towards the ruler, how and when to use force and how to achieve stability in power. And all this abandoning the religious assumptions and locating from the point of view of men (secularization).

HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE WORK OF MACHIAVELLI: CRISIS OF FEUDALISM AND THE FORMATION OF MODERN STATES

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): ), a modern theorist of Political Science, was always closely linked to the political struggles of his time and especially of his city, Florence. Between 1498 and 1512 he held increasingly important positions in the government of his land.

Florence was an independent republic at that time. Machiavelli held a leading post in the Chancellery. That allowed him to have an idea and a very exact location of the Italian and European situation of his time. Italy, in Machiavelli's time, was artificially divided into the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence, the Kingdom of Naples, the Aristocratic Republic of Venice, and the Papal States. Machiavelli was a determined supporter of Italian unity. His separation from the circles of power came when he signed the decree that allowed the Medici family to return from exile. Forced away from immediate action Machiavelli wrote his main works: Speeches on the First Decade of Livy, The Prince, The art of war.

Machiavelli's work is set in the transition from the decadent medieval world to the beginning of bourgeois modernity. FEUDALISM was the characteristic Middle Ages way of articulating social relations. The actors that made up feudalism were: the Lord, the servant and the Church. The latter was concerned with establishing the dominant ideological values.

LAND is the MAIN FACTOR OF PRODUCTION. This was under the dominion of the feudal Lord and was cultivated by serfs to whom plots were given. The Lord received a part of the servant's production and offered him and all those who inhabit his region a kind of political protection from abroad. Feudalism articulated a set of manorial domains.

FROM THERE IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT POLITICAL SOVEREIGNTY WAS VERY FRAGMENTED. THE KING HAD POWER AS THE FEUDAL LORDS WERE HIS VESSELS, BUT IN MANY CASES, THIS RESULTED IN A LACK OF REAL POWER

Towards the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth the feudal system began to experience its long