Niccolo Machiavelli · Politics
Machiavelli’s most notorious question - whether a ruler should be loved or feared - and his cold, careful answer that fear is the safer foundation.
You learned that Machiavelli prefers fear to love but warns against being hated. Reconstruct his reasoning, and the crucial line between fear and hatred, in your own words.
Leads to Thomas Hobbes.
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