Comparing Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

Comparing the history of Machiavelli's prince and the Republic of Plato, many people write about ideal rulers and countries and how to maintain them. Perhaps the most noticed and compared are Prince and Machiavelli of Plato in the Republic. Machiavelli lives in the era of political destruction in Italy. Prince's writing is to explain how the leader acquires and maintains power. In Plato's "Republic", he revealed the definition of justice. Plato thinks that the ruler can not be totally justified unless one person is in the same society.

Let's think of the father of modern political science, Machiavelli to write his masterpiece "Prince" in the 1530's. Plato and Aristotle lived between 400 and 300 BC. These dates are combined with the fact that Machiavelli wrote about rhetoric and republican in political science in the 16th century and the fact that Western democracy is a mixture between the Republic and Athens democracy. Comparing this perspective with Plato's republic, you can understand why this story is not only beautiful but also forms the core of contemporary Western socio-economic politics.

Comparing the history of Machiavelli's prince and the Republic of Plato, many people write about ideal rulers and countries and how to maintain them. Perhaps the most noticed and compared are Prince and Machiavelli of Plato in the Republic. Machiavelli lives in the era of political destruction in Italy. Prince's writing is to explain how the leader acquires and maintains power. In Plato's "Republic", he revealed the definition of justice. Plato thinks that the ruler can not be totally justified unless one person is in the same society.

Machiavelli's "Prince" was written to explain how leaders gained and maintain power. Socrates uses states and rulers to reveal justice through Plato's 'Republic'. I do not intend to practice like Machiavelli. Machiavelli recognized this, but he explained that he intended to write true, real, useful society and politics, not idealism. "For many people the Republic and the principalities have never been known or seen." Unlike Socrates's idealist philosophy, the explanation of the Government of Machiavelli is a practical and effective concept. Please change the situation without following strict law, ethics or tradition. All political thinkers before Machiavelli thought of the use of power as a means to the end; the difference was that they believed the final result. Machiavelli believes the use of this power is its own purpose.