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Niccolo Machiavelli George Orwell
1,195 wordsMy focus is upon a piece by Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian prince from the renaissance period who writes "The Morals of a Prince", and in an opposite vein, an essay by George Orwell, an English author and enemy of totalitarianism whose essay is "Politics and the English Language." Within these essays I have found a similarity in which Orwell illustrates that 'political writing becomes the defense of the indefensible, most political writing is bad, where it is not the author is usually a rebel w...
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Courses Of Action Pope Julius
2,105 wordsNiccol Machiavelli, born in 1469, wrote The Prince during 1513 while living in political exile at his country house outside of Florence. He had served as head of the second chancery of the Florentine republic, but was dismissed after it fell in 1512. The Medici family was again ruling Florence, and a Medici also sat on the papal throne in Rome. Machiavelli tried unsuccessfully to use this treatise to gain an advisory appointment either to the papacy or the court of the Duke. The Prince was publi...
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Legalization And Regulation Commercial Vices Alcohol
515 wordsThe Commercial Vices Commercial Vices The commercial vices are gambling, prostitution, and drugs. The appeals of the commercial vices are so strong and widespread that attempts to prohibit them in western countries have always failed. The evils of these vices are threefold: Those who practice them suffer, the criminals who sell them prosper, and the enforcement organizations are expensive, unsuccessful, and often corrupt. Two commercial vices have been accepted as unstoppable, but there evils ha...
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Driving While Intoxicated Aristotle Believed
1,159 wordsAn ethical issue that is debated in our society is the concern of driving while intoxicated. Although this was naturally not the case during Aristotle s time, many of his ethical beliefs can be applied to refute this dilemma. I will prove the standing issue to be unethical through Aristotle s discussion of virtue and his concept of voluntary / involuntary actions in the Nicomachea n Ethics. Aristotle believed that of the virtues learned in our youth, each has a respective excess and deficiency. ...
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