{"id":840,"date":"2019-09-23T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=840"},"modified":"2019-09-23T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:53:06","slug":"machiavelli-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/23\/machiavelli-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Machiavelli Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The Prince<\/em>, there were two main points that interested me the most and seemed to connect to earlier concepts we\u2019ve learned in class. The first is that \u201cmen are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.\u201d (Machiavelli, 122). Machiavelli\u2019s point ties directly into the idea of toxic charisma. Certain people will always be attracted to charismatic people (the Prince), regardless of the deception\/falsehood of what is being said. A modern example would be how the German population adopted Hitler\u2019s ideology despite it being terrible.<\/p>\n<p>The second main point was that it is \u201cnot necessary for a prince to have all the above-named qualities, but it is very necessary to seem to have them\u201d (Machiavelli, 123). I thought this was interesting, because Machiavelli is saying that the populous only must believe the prince has the qualities of a good ruler, when they could just be putting on a front. This made me think that leaders (princes) could just be eloquent scammers and that is enough to make the state stable.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the reading was interesting because Machiavelli wasn\u2019t reflecting on what a leader <em>should<\/em> be, but rather on what a leader <em>must <\/em>be to remain in power. That could follow the path of just actions, but more likely than not it would require the prince to be cruel, but not cruel to the point of engendering hatred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Prince, there were two main points that interested me the most and seemed to connect to earlier concepts we\u2019ve learned in class. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/23\/machiavelli-post\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Machiavelli Post<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}