Free ebook and pdf of the prince by niccolo machiavelli. Publication date 1921 topics political science, political ethics. Pdf niccolo machiavelli, the prince with related documents, 2d. It is both a philosophical study in autocracy and a guide in the pursuit of power, especially implying that the ends justify. The prince 2 nicolo machiavelli chapter ii concerning hereditary principalities will leave out all discussion on republics, inasmuch as in another place i have written of them at length, 1 and will address myself only to principalities. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of. Mansfields brilliant translation of this classic work, along with the new. Within the book are timeless principles of leadership, what a ruler must and must not do to secure. Linguists have shown how the writing technique, that makes the prince a unique work, is one of.
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