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| Laurence Goldstein - 1986 - 302 pagina’s
...things for his study, but war and its organization and discipline," Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, "for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands."13 Milan's major industry was the manufacture of arms, and its leaders encouraged the study... | |
| Robert L. O'Connell - 1990 - 378 pagina’s
...ruler who must personally take the lead. "A Prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, or take up any other thing for his study, but war and...the only art that is necessary to one who commands." 19 international bands of mercenaries who were coming to do the fighting, and accurately foresaw that... | |
| David A. Dilworth - 1989 - 252 pagina’s
...proceeding in their actions by imitation." His agonistic method is typically evidenced in the following: "A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought,...up any other thing for his study, but war and its organisation and discipline. . . . The chief cause of the loss of states, is the contempt of this art,... | |
| 91 pagina’s
...of other means."1 Likewise, few have been willing to embrace Machiavelli's exhortation that a ruler "should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor...that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands."2 While not all would agree, the evidence suggests that, in several instances during the... | |
| Robert Hariman - 2010 - 272 pagina’s
...Machiavelli's use of the military model is unconventional only in his great emphasis on its value. "A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought,...up any other thing for his study, but war and its organisation and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands" (p. 53).... | |
| Robert Hariman - 2010 - 272 pagina’s
...have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its organisation and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands" (p. 53). This advice goes well beyond the reminder that states should be prepared for war; Machiavelli... | |
| Roger Boesche - 2010 - 508 pagina’s
...or a tyrant, might organize an army for war, again a topic virtually ignored by Plato and Aristotle. "A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought,...thing for his study, but war and its organization and discipline."7' The twin foundations of any state are "good laws and good armies," which means that... | |
| 1997 - 452 pagina’s
...225. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Machiavelli could still write: "A prince should . . . have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its organisation and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands." Machiavelli,... | |
| Robert Kocis - 1998 - 272 pagina’s
...to be concerned with the common good. This is why he teaches the grandsons of Lorenzo the Great that A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought...up any other thing for his study, but war and its organisation and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands, and it... | |
| Jovan Kurbalija, Hannah Slavik - 2001 - 340 pagina’s
...as "idealists" and are taken less seriously than the so-called "realists". Machiavelli preached that "A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought,...up any other thing for his study, but war and its organisation and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands."2 This... | |
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