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This 5 page paper looks at the views of Machiavelli and Hobbes and compares them to the ides of Plato and Aristotle. Leadership issues are addressed. Some quotes are included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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example, when deciding whether or not individual versus community rights are paramount, there are different views. Some uphold individual rights as something that goes beyond the state whereas others see
community rights as most important. Is the good of the community or the individual the primary concern? Machiavellis The Prince seems to consider the needs of the individual.
The work considers various types of monarchs and then finally, Machiavellis own philosophy surfaces. It appears that Machiavelli believes that Princes must meet the needs of the people. They cannot
merely look to please themselves. He did not believe that methodology was particularly important as different rulers have different styles. Although Machiavelli believes in serving the good of the people,
he seemed to believe in their individual needs as opposed to serving the good of the state. He believed that monarchs are superior and could make appropriate decisions for
the people. However, it was the individual needs of the people, and not for himself or those on his level, that would come first. Hobbes saw that it was
dangerous if just a few willful men would become powerful (Honderich 368). This is different from Machiavellis position, but Hobbes still viewed the needs of the people as paramount. To
derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of attention to the nature of man. He said: "Nature hath made men so equall,
in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there bee found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another; yet when all is
reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himselfe any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as
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