Machiavelli’s View of Human Nature

A simple version of Machiavelli 's concept of human beings, Machiavelli' s concept of mankind is easily withdrawn from the prince. It is easy to find support for support by text that assumes a specific version of psychological egoism or it seems equivalent. For example, "Generally ... men are ungrateful, greedy, oaths, hoping to avoid danger, are greedy, if you are friendly to them, they are totally yours" "Men are a selfish responsible chain and they will be broken as long as they achieve their goals. "(Oji, xvii, p.

=========================================================== ======= === MACHIAVELLI 's Human Nature In the Prince of Niccolo, Machiavelli proposed a way to manage a country different from the humanitarian of his time. Machiavelli believes that the prince ought to be the only authority to determine all aspects of the country and to implement his best interest policy. These benefits are acquiring, maintaining and expanding his political power 1 An understanding of Humanity is quite contradictory to Humanist's beliefs and teachings. Humanitarians believe that "individuals only" can grow intellectually and morally by participating in people's lives. '4 Machiavelli generally does not trust citizens, in the adversity, very few people can find it when the country needs that citizen. However, Machiavelli does not feel the prince ought to abuse citizens

Machiavelli believes that human beings are not satisfied and are born with meaning. Humans are not happy, but they are full of desire. His views on humanity are very similar to Hobbes' view. The view on Machiavelli's politics, religion and morality is basically based on the view on human nature. Machiavelli said, "Men are ungrateful, fickle, cheated, cowardly, greedy." Machiavelli said that the rulers should protect people, their families and their property, he can dominate them without difficulty. "People like their happiness, but since they are afraid of the happiness of the prince, the prince should rely on himself, not others.