Machiavelli's The Prince

Niccolò Machiavellis The Prince is a political treatise sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy especially modern political philosophy in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics. The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepting that ends of princes glory and survival can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends. Niccolò di Bernardo dei was an Italian philosopher humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science was a diplomat political philosopher playwright and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic. He also wrote comedies carnival songs poetry and some of the most well-known personal correspondence in the Italian language.