Niccolo Machiavelli · Politics
Machiavelli’s revolution: to study politics by how people <em>actually</em> behave, not how moralists wish they would - the birth of political realism.
You learned that Machiavelli sought the ‘effectual truth.’ Explain what that means and how it differs from the older, idealising approach to politics, in your own words.
Leads to Otto von Bismarck.
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