Final Thoughts on Machiavelli and The Prince (Machiavelli, Pt. 6)

Final part of our series on Niccolò Machiavelli, part of a larger series, Foundations of Western Political Thought. In this video I give my personal opinions on The Prince, which are mixed, but on the whole positive. Machiavel was a writer and diplomat in Renaissance Florence, in Italy, a city dominated for much of his lifetime by the Medici dynasty.

Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:47 - Human Nature and History
10:14 - Fear and Love
20:44 - Virtue and Vice
33:05 - Realpolitik
43:08 - End Goal of Statecraft
45:46 - Glory, Fame, and Reputation

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Dr. Jonathan Barth received his PhD in history from George Mason University in 2014. He specializes in the history of money and banking in the early modern period, with corollary interests in early modern politics, empire, culture, and ideas. Barth is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University.
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