Similarities Between Nicolo Machiavelli's The New Prince
Convergences between Nicolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and
Dick Morris’s “The New Prince”
Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. He died at Florence on 22nd June 1527. Dick Morris was born on November 28, 1948. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1967.He served as Bill Clinton 's political consultant. Nicolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, is, by far, one of the most widely known and read books about politics in the last 500 hundred years, as well as an extremely innovative book, being one of the first books of the modern political philosophy. …show more content…
The book is about princes and princedoms and how they can come to power, directly instructing kings or lesser rulers on certain aspects of rule and behaviour, but also how to tyrannize. Dick Morris, through its book’s very title “The New Prince : Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-first Century”, shows its readers that he, in one way or another, shares the same ideas as Machiavelli, through the point of view of how one should rule, but, evidently, ideas and advices that are updated for the century we live in. Dick Morris has the same approach as Nicolo Machiavelli in a lot of matters. For example, in his book, Dick Morris emphasizes the importance of the polls nowadays, which is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample, in this case, the level of popularity of a politician, essential for his image. We can agree that this is a modern method of grading a political actor’s popularity, whereas in Machiavelli’s time, there was no such thing. Instead, the only way of grading a prince’s popularity was the love or hate that he would receive from his people, which would be the poll’s equivalent in
Dick Morris’s “The New Prince”
Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. He died at Florence on 22nd June 1527. Dick Morris was born on November 28, 1948. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1967.He served as Bill Clinton 's political consultant. Nicolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, is, by far, one of the most widely known and read books about politics in the last 500 hundred years, as well as an extremely innovative book, being one of the first books of the modern political philosophy. …show more content…
The book is about princes and princedoms and how they can come to power, directly instructing kings or lesser rulers on certain aspects of rule and behaviour, but also how to tyrannize. Dick Morris, through its book’s very title “The New Prince : Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-first Century”, shows its readers that he, in one way or another, shares the same ideas as Machiavelli, through the point of view of how one should rule, but, evidently, ideas and advices that are updated for the century we live in. Dick Morris has the same approach as Nicolo Machiavelli in a lot of matters. For example, in his book, Dick Morris emphasizes the importance of the polls nowadays, which is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample, in this case, the level of popularity of a politician, essential for his image. We can agree that this is a modern method of grading a political actor’s popularity, whereas in Machiavelli’s time, there was no such thing. Instead, the only way of grading a prince’s popularity was the love or hate that he would receive from his people, which would be the poll’s equivalent in