Ideals And Beliefs In Machiavelli's The Prince

Probably one the most controversial book during the time it was publish. This book challenges the ideal and beliefs of many and still on the presence day people don’t agree with some of the basics concept of it. The Prince by Machiavelli dedicated to Lorenzo di Medici was considered a handbook on how to become a prince and how to retain the positon. Machiavelli goes into detail on explaining how the ideal prince should be. Dante was very influential Italian poet that wrote the Divine Comedy that describe a journal through Infierno, Purgatory and Paradiso. In a deeper level talks about a mediavel Christian theologyBoth men were political writers that had a common view on evilness of human nature and the separation of church and state. If
“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.” Any prince that wish to obtain a kingdom and after getting it being able to keep it needs to keep this in mind. Sometime on one’s life you need to preform deeds that you never though you were able to do just to get what you want but in order to survive need to do these things Machiavelli refers to how in politics it’s necessary to do whatever it takes to get where you desire to be. “A prince must have no other objective, no other thought, nor take up any profession but that of war, its methods and its discipline, for that is the only art expected of a ruler. For Machiavelli it was necessary to go to war in order for a prince to keep his kingdom under control and functioning. In order to be consider a worthy prince of a kingdom the prince had a duty of going to war. In politics it should a en essential goal after becoming a
“Many writers have dreamed up republics and kingdoms that bear no resemblance to experience and never existed in reality; there is such a gap between how people actually live and how they ought to live” Machiavelli critizes all those writers that talk about morality and how rulers should act with morality because this approach as a ruler would only leave him without a kingdom. What these writers are trying to implement in their books and poems are far from reality and it’s something that might never happen. “Anyone who thinks that an important man will forget past grievances just because he's received some new promotion must think again. Borgia miscalculated in this election, and the mistake was fatal” (7.15) Machiavelli takes the morality out politics. Using the words miscalculated shows that politics is cold and by no means should be something that we can associate with