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1. According to Machiavelli, what is the purpose of government?

2. By what standards should we judge rules such as those that Machiavelli supports?
3. What is Machiavelli’s opinion of the role of the individual in history?
4. How do Machiavelli’s beliefs regarding government compare with those of Confucius?

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Answer: 1 The purpose of government is, at the end, stability. Forms of government come and go, with various experiments through history proving more or less bloody or successful. More purely, Machiavelli would define a good government as one that was effective, and responsive to the antagonistic demands of the time.

2.According to Machiavelli a ruler should have three ends namely to gain power,to retain power and to extend power.In order to achieve these ends,a ruler can do everything. Machiavelli wisely borrows an image from medieval animal fables and says that the ruler must be able to imitate both the lion and the fox.Feb 28, 2009

3. Machiavelli believed as a ruler, it was better to be widely feared than to be greatly loved; A loved ruler retains authority by obligation while a feared leader rules by fear of punishment.

i don't know the 3d one

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