Machiavelli: The Power of Fear

Niccolo Machiavelli emphasizes as follows. "People should be worried and loved at the same time, but since it is difficult for them to be together, fear is safer than loved ... love is dominated by a series of obligations, men are selfish, The fear will be maintained because of the punishment that never fails. "If he does not like that, he says he has threatened the people under him At least you can submit it by knowing.

Machiavelli Machiavelli's view is centered around the idea that people have to do something in his mind to maintain the influence and power he gained (Machiavelli talks about "her" I will not mention it). For him, nothing must be done without losing influence and power. "These objectives prove the rationality of the means," he said. The power of the regulation must be maintained by keeping people scared. Without fear of people, their trust in the leaders craves for them and they begin looking for other leaders to replace the leaders who think they are weak.

In political theory, people understand that fear is essential for group formation. In Machiavelli's "Prince and discourse", Prince uses fear as a means of getting the subject - citizens agree with the power he already has: love is safer than loving (Machiavelli 1950: 61). Because fear is related to punishment, it is understood as a safer power tool than love. "Fear is caused by fear unstoppable" (Machiavelli 1950: fear is related to pain and torture, so fear matches the principal of the prince with his power In another argument, Hobbes (1991) regards fear as the main reason for the emergence of the government, and the fear of the status of the government is to make the subject consent to governance, the fear of chaos is related to the fear of nature.

Possible consequences: One person, dominated by freedom or anarchism. "(Machiavelli pp 31) If people are concerned about the repression of bourgeoisie they will now be doubtful about the authorities.Machiavelli focuses on the art of war from the perspective of external governance Maquiavelli also suspects this trust, but the new republic uses its allies to isolate enemies, only those who know him We need to use this idea to attack, he can prove victory weaken