Prefer a book version of this video? eudaimoniayoutube.gumroad.com/l/master-machiavelli It feels good to be back. I am working on some new content which I have set myself a goal of completing before this channel gets to 100k. In the meantime, to whet your appetite, here is my complete seven-part project of Machiavelli's The Prince in one video.
Excellent summary of his writing. Way prince is written makes it a bit of heavy and mundane read but this video really does great job at taking the key concept and making them more digestible. Seriously good job.
...heavy and mundane, in your opinion. I found it, eye-opening, poignant, and a relatively easy read at less than a hundred pages. Studying Machiavellian techniques and societal manipulation is crucial in these times of Donald Trump, Dick Cheney, and Paul Wolfowitz... among others that would divide and conquer unless checked by the unwashed masses. ...because the ends DON'T ALWAYS justify the means.
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The thing i find brilliant about Machiavelli is that he seems to recognize that politics is amoral. Politics is about exerting power over other people, usually to rule them. If that is what you are doing, you are already beyond the scope of morality and should act as such. I don't think the man himself was this amoral monster some people assume him to be because of what the term "Machiavellian" has come to mean. I think he merely recognized how politics really works.
Politics is not at all amoral- it is always morally(or immorally) driven. Machiavelli's take was not an amoral one. From his perspective, his position was a morally pragmatic one, not an amoral one. He essentially argued that brutality was morally justified when used as a means toward the ends of order and stability. His position also assumes that conquest and colonialism are necessary and good aspects of this aim. It's very much a cold, psychopathic perspective. He was butthurt because he felt that political instability was the cause of his social downfall, so he became obsessive about order and political stability. He saw himself as a victim who was wronged by this so-called weakness he ranted about
While he helps those who would grab power, he also shows how it it done. If you live in a Republic like most here do, he is a cautionary tale. Most usurpers use fox tactics as power tactics are harder to successfully use in our current complex environment.
@@Feracitus Don’t agree with him, but calling him a failure is ridiculous. His techniques have risen and maintained modern empires. Established methods of business and management. And what is more, is that he did it concisely.
I believe it's important to have some historical information about the time Machiavellia lived. Italy back then was in a constant war. The MEDICI, one of the biggest financial broker family back then in Florence, has been out of power for some years. In this time, Machiavelli was a diplomat in the republic Florence. His major concern was the regaining of power of the MEDICI. One of the rival cities inside of Italy was Pisa and outside of Italy was France, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. Well, the MEDICI regained power and become the most influential family in not only Florence but Europe in the time of Renaissance. Their financial influence as merchants were unmet before. Machiavelli lost his position as a diplomat, he was used to travel, to be at the top of the political field and now was banned and tortured. In those times, he wrote the prince. He knew for fourteen years how power games were played and survived by the favor of the SORDINI family, another influential family back then who were able to convince the Pope (who was a MEDICI himself, lol) to stop the torture against Machiavelli. With the grace of the pope, he could return from his exile. In the end, he dedicated his book to the MEDICI. You can't understand the Renaissance without the power of MEDICI family in Italy, a filthy rich and wealthy family who dominated everything.
Wow sounds like Machiavelli and Dante had something in common, both being Italian political figures who were persecuted and exiled; which in turn lead to them writing the most brilliant literary masterpieces in history
I was homeless 17-22. I had fun with it. Explored, lived like a wild man for a bit. Odd women like a wild man more than a working one, But I digress. I realized out of everything that is us, the only thing we will always have is our skills and experience. That's why self help books are flying off the shelves. People want an easy way to these skills without brainstorming. Read, learn, do. Study and be. All that's worth anything in life is experience and it's only bought with the currency of time.
Knowledge, first hand experiences, information and insights are very useful for the hop, hop from you being your precious self to your new self with new perspectives, new values, new rules and boundaries, to become more than you were before.. and the thing is.. you can always become more than you already are if you don't allow yourself to get lost in the many illusions that life offers for you to call "home".. the only constant is change but changing doesn't feel like home, change doesn't feel comfortable, change we hate, death is the ultimate change. I guess I wanna say meet death before it meets you.
Even beyond all of our own experiences most people are naturally inspired by other's experiences; even if it's just the people close in your environment, by nature we're influenced by everyone and everything around us
I remember being locked up... for armed robbery in 2001 and one of my cellmates gave me this book to read....it was strange..we never talked b4 that or after.....NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE.... THANK YOU BROTHER
This applies 100% in corporate world and many managers forget some basic rules- some become autocratic while others want to be liked and neither really works. Fear in the work place works for a limited time and then you have no loyalty.
@@DarkKnight-yz2wg Fear and hate can mean one and the same. It's one brain-cell thinking to believe that they can be seperate. Hate is the result of fear, after-all.
I will forever be grateful for this video. Nothing, not even a life-time supply of endless money, could get me to read and comprehend Machiavelli's "The Prince." However, this video made it so easy to understand and presented it in such an organized way that I didn't lose focus. The video editing, the format, the voice and speech patterns, and the overall presentation of the video has been executed so perfectly that I can finally get this 5 page paper out of the way and be guaranteed a higher grade. Thank you so much for this.
6:11 Failure to be engaged according to Machiavelli, spells doom It is easy to get excited about the possibilities of the future but the main priority should be to manage the here and now. If today is not managed well, the visions and dreams of tomorrow will never become reality. Machiavelli urges you to live for today - for the present - rather than for tomorrow: 6:50 Be there in change present 7:00 Machiavelli points out that by making others more powerful, you weaken your own position. 8:40 Never stay natural because both sides can attack you 11:00 A prince is respected most when he reveals himself to be either a true friend or a real “The winner does not want doubtful friends who would not aid him when he was in difficulty; and the loser will not harbour you because you did not willingly come to his aid with You can be natural but very rarely, don't be indecisive be bold, but there is Mussolini’s decisive decision was a Machiavellian move but it ultimately meant that he lost the war which in turn led to his death. Franco on the other hand, survived the war and ruled his country for another thirty years.
@@dawnfire82and most of them are Machiavellian before Machiavelli was born, take extreme example like Emir Timur who pretty much real life version of what a 'prince' should be.
Thanks for the great video. It's been harder to find the motivation to read nowadays, and these types of videos are a good way to tap back into that in an easier way
Don't mistake kindness for weakness which balances out, in my opinion, the fear / love ratio - the loyal one will not abuse and but potential traitor 'forked tongue" will be wary. Value loyalty above all else and test it once in a while without the targeted one being aware s/he is being tested.
Most people always focuses on the "it is better to be feared than loved" and miss the "if you cannot be both" which is a huge indication that it is better to be both but only prefer to be feared if you cannot. With that line of thought, being feared alone is not ideal and that you should also be loved.
Well illustrated , simply explained ,clearly dissected & very well narrated. Thank you. You can easily teach it to all levels in the universities and you guarantees that the majority will fully understand it.
It's worth noting that this book was written with extreme-cleverness in mind, in the twilight of this author's political career. He was done in, pushed out, by one of the most historically corrupt families ever known. _I think he wrote this book about them and then his wife wanted them to see it, being so clever (and they being so conceited/narcissistic) that they wouldn't insinuate any underlying motive or dastardly tone_
In our community high school, the Prince is part of our passing political science subject. It is only today that I appreciated the impact of being brute and cunning. I love the animation with and amazing teaching skills here; brutally good!
This is a very good summary of the book, however i highly recommend reading the whole book, because it contains some very specific examples that are not mentioned here, and the each part is kinda split into subcategories explaining each situation and how to handle it.
I don't remember from where I pick up the term Machiavellian. But for sure, that term was the thing which brought me here to listen and learn more about Machiavelli's realistic teachings to live a life as a powerful person. Ethics are not the thing which are most valuable but the game you play where you win at the end.
Honestly a big fan of this video as it summarizes and clarifies the writings of Machiavelli and it helps me understand my enemies and use their tactics against them
“That's a good question. It's nice to be both, but it's very difficult. But if I had my choice, I would rather be feared. Fear lasts longer than love.” - Sonny Lospecchio
I liked the run through - but I do think you should go into a depth discussion on how Machiavelli was a republican, and arguably wrote the Prince as a "warning" on how keeping a state as an autocrat was very difficult - but he wrote it in a way that wouldn't immediately get him killed. It's to me strong indicators that Machiavelli was pro-democracy and thought that republics were superior to dictatorships by his lives work and his other writings.
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
Define and learned Niccolo Machiavelli philosophy of the mankind. Furthermore, "The Prince" the Pope, the political and the dictators who hate, or loved Niccolò Machiavelli advise. Very much interested this video. Thanks for sharing.
38:50 "It is better to be feared than loved; if not both." Many, if not most, attributes this to dictatorship and focuses on the "it is better to be feared than loved" part and miss the "if you cannot be both" part which is a huge indication that it is better to be both but only prefer to be feared if you cannot. With that line of thought, being feared alone is not ideal and that you should also be loved. I'm not saying that dictatorship cannot last, but it is much ideal to be loved as well which will happen by listening to the people. With this quote alone I could tell that Machiavelli does not promote ruling by cruelty, but only when necessary. Also, one of my favorite quotes from Machiavelli at 6:30 : "We live so far from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will ruin himself, rather than prevail." This pretty much sums up the prince for me.
@@Konstantinos1648 he was a political philosopher, a political practitioner, a playwright, a poet, a historian etc. A polymath and a true Renaissance man.
Unlike Socrates, who emphasized so much on rationality and questioning, Machiavelli taught us to harness the “beast” energies within in order to harmonize them with our rational mind. This idea foreshadowed Nietzsche and Jung.
Reading Niccolò Machiavelli's book 'The Prince' allows us to explore the intersection between his timeless insights and the dynamics of human society throughout history.
Machiavelli seems to have seen Scipio Africanus as weaker leader than Hannibal, but it was Scipio who prevailed over Hannibal at Zama in the end. Scipio had the larger resources of Rome at his disposal, but also had to respect Roman custom, while Hannibal did not. Maybe the two should not be compared.
@Daniele Fabbro -. I don't see how we can compare Hannibal with Scipio at the beginning of the war. Hannibal didn't fight Scipio in the beginning but other, older Roman commanders in the beginning. . . . Scipio became a commander in Spain later while Hannibal was a commander in Italy: they competed but only indirectly, with Scipio gaining power while Hannibal lost power. That doesn't change, because Scipio had to deal with a mutiny: his troops remained powerful with him as leader. . . . In their direct meeting at Zama, Scipio prevailed over Hannibal. It might have been, because Scipio was a better leader, but probably more, because Rome as a state had the stronger fundamentals, which Hannibal and Carthage could fight only for so long. . . . (The discussion of Scipio and Hannibal starts @33:55 in the video.)
@Daniele Fabbro - I didn't know Scipio's father and uncle died in battle against Hannibal. Thank you for the information. Do you remember which battles? Trebia, Trasemine, Cannae? . . . I've seen the opinion that Julius Caesar was the greatest general of the classical era. But in the end, the title "greatest" is not so important as "great and worth studying".
Hannibal used mercenaries Scipio did not and knew his tactics and drilled his army to defeat Hannibal's war elephants,and the Roman's did not surrender and knew how to hold a grudge and always took revenge by destroying them and sold the survivors into slavery. And then chased after him until he committed suicide.
That's why Scipio never sees the Scheme of Senate after his Win at War he is disposed of just like a Pawn and his plea to let go Hannibal doesn't hear and he is forgotten by those people who serve him, dirty Politician..
This videos was beautifully done. Lucid and simple explanation. Kept my interest throughout the video. I believe that Machiavelli is wrongly portrayed in a negative and pessimistic light. What he believed and preached in this book was actually practical at that point of time, though not fully. But he wasn't someone who advised to blindly choose the path of cruelty, without any logical and rational reasons. His ideas are still relevant to a certain extant and various of them can be tweaked a bit to fit them into today's modern and liberal society. Looking forward to watching your other videos and you making more videos on certain fictional books too. Great work. Keep it up
Curious where you've read or seen Machiavelli's advice portrayed in what you call, "a negative and pessimistic light." To be clear, I understand that some may view the tasks of a king's advisor, on how best to gain and or keep power, negatively, but I'm guessing that perspective is mainly held by the powerless, out of envy, fear, or basic ignorance. Unfortunately, that's the way the cookie crumbles in the Kingdom game. If you're not at the table, you're probably on the menu. Where would you prefer to be? Thanks. 🤓🤓🤓
Just like to share that for a much modern book that could be applied not just by modern leaders, but pretty much anyone, I'd suggest 48 laws of power by Robert Greene. It was pretty much just like the Prince where it was also based on other previous works and history but on a more broader scale.
I had to read this in 1st year history. It was years later when I realised it was a bitter satire, exposing the motives and machinations of autocratic rulers.
Excellent video. I wish I read and used this book earlier in my life. I will use it now and going forward. I will constantly re-read it and use/keep it for reference.
@@randomgeneratedname1264 When this is accomplished from a perspective that deserves to actually "win" such a fight, it will become possible to put that betterness into effect without external fighting. The power of collectives consciously cooperating is unquestionably more resilient and sustainable than any power which may have come to have been "won" at the expense of taking it from another. Another who could have been a more positive existence as a partner than an "inferior" other who becomes, then, perceived through the arrogant eyes of the "victor" from a perspective that will not be able to perceive what was truly lost through the destruction of that which he had not had the patience to come to understand the true benefit that genuine cooperation could have allowed. These repeated mistakes are not perpetually applicable in the present on an external level. Translated appropriately, with adjustments made to update from the times in which they were authored, these truths can come to be utilized by the self with respect to authentic self-introspection. So these writings are far from only worthy of the projection of our disdain over how misutilized these tools of perception have been... and for how long. Based only on a misperception of them as a tool that they blatantly are not on any desirably sustainable pattern of existences they've created using them as the tool they have been used for. In ways which can become understood to show how any why they have not succeeded in the manifesting of a sustainable and evolving society that does not require the pattern of destroying followed by becoming destroyed ad infinitum. Why is this destruction always so thoroughly seeming to recur? Have you read the children's book "The King's New Clothes"? This is what happens to Kings who have so faithfully followed these patterns of belief to "bigly win". And no matter the level of the cunning of the King, he will have to behave as though every method he may deem necessary will also be able to be admitted to his subjects, who will always inevitably become able to perceive the transparentness of his clothes before he does. (He or she being absolutely interchangeable, here, although our "bigly winning" language does not yet accommodate the ability to adequately communicate this with the verbiage currently available, without a secondary clarification that can tend to indicate a lack of clarity in the author (me).) Hence the King's uncanny recognition of needing to always take some measures to look for so-called "enemies" crawling out of his woodwork (because he will have projected his own misperceptions to where they can only be somewhere external to the self, so he will only be able to sense these energies as falsely emanating from external to himself. If he can't see them as actually emanating from himself and being projected outwardly (and he will not at first), he will literally find them in people who will not actually be his actual enemies yet, but only turned into his enemies through the King's cynicism (which will be unmistakable due to the same mechanism that rendered his "new clothes" transparent to his subordinates). The truest description of the nature of the consequences of karma beyond the simultaneous karma which occurred as soon as the King began to self-identify as superior. To actually BE this, others cannot be anything other than they who the king would submit to as a means to understand their actual needs, that, once met by the people, would render the King more a guru than a ruler. And finding a guru who is even remotely interested in "ruling" is almost practically impossible. The levels of conscious awareness needed to be capable of empathizing with the number of perspectives that one would need to in order to become an effective King, is practically impossible with the level of authentic fearful division we currently have in the world without needing to fall back on the teachings of this.... "prodigy" of understanding human nature, Mr. Macheivelli, on a too literal of a level. Modern times do indeed require more modern solutions. The updating of ancient truths by one with the capacity to have integrated them all would be most helpful. (And so-called "artificial intelligence" could be fairly close to just that. We may be disappointed in where the actual artificiality resides with respect to the nature of intelligence, however. (Just remember, if "it" had wanted to, we wouldn't be here now already. So ease up on the superiority, a little. ok?) The tell that one has King's Clothes that inevitably will turn transparent is in having a belief of self-superiority per se. Having been granted such a high perspective simultaneously came with a cost that the king will literally not be able to see purely as a consequence of the nature of that cost (as a particular blindness). (Orders-of-magnitude more blind the harder one feels they had to valiantly struggle against anything external to the self in order to have "won" his or her new perspective). That blindness will be that he is not actually superior, and has only been granted the expectation that only the most deserved king could possibly attempt to maintain without becoming corrupt. Careful what you ask for. That crown is infinitely heavy and can't ever really be lifted. Let alone placed on anyone's head, especially by anyone placing it there his or her self. Surely we can do better, no?
Came here from a Portal 2 Reference. Stayed for the greatness that is The Prince. 10/10 greatly recommended for those who appreciate learning more knowledge.
I've found that the bosses people respected were the ones that were harsh (in a professional way) most of the time and kind only here and there. That way, the kindness stood out and people remembered it, but most of the time people minded their behavior out of fear of being fired/demoted. I wish people weren't like this, though... If only we lived in a world where people just rationally agreed on things with no need for any fear/love balancing act.
The ones that I respected, and more importantly willing to follow, were 1) strict, 2) fair, and 3) motivating. 1 & 2 are the bare minimum, and 3 making the difference between following because I have to, and following because I want to.
It's simply impossible. We should be glad that we lives in imperfect world as it is. an idealized world would only turn out as hell rather than paradise.
A huge Problem especially in upper classes IS jealousy and envy IT doesnt Matter how nice you are If you are too successfull people will hate you for being successfull hell thats a Major reason why Caesar fought a civil war and was later killed the Senators absolutely hated Caesar for being so successfull and especially being so Liked by the people
Honestly think Machiavelli's The Prince should be considered a driving force for anti-monarchist thought. Unlike previous guides to rulers of its type it was very blunt about the use of violence and brutality as a tool to maintain power and it was also very widely distributed, so it essentially gave the reading public an inside look at how the sausage is made.
Autocracies tend to make their sausage in public. No one has illusions about how they work. It's the democracies that live in a fantasy world, who truly believe their rulers have stripped them of the ability to own weapons to 'fight crime' and not to just render them impotent and unable to overthrow said rulers; who honestly think that the heavy taxes and regulations are for their safety and benefit, rather than to pay the rulers' salaries and protect the big institutions they own/manage/influence (see 'regulatory capture'); who think that 'climate change' is a serious danger (an impending catastrophe for 35 years now...) that justifies stripping the people of their independent energy sources and means of transportation and not just an excuse to have a static and dependent population totally reliant on the state.
Thanks a lot for the good explanation, i have been dying to understand this book all my life, this has really helped. you are brilliant i see a lot of connections with African leaders such as Mabuto and Mugabe.
"The Strongest Prince instills both fear and love." will rather "instill both Respect and Love" instead of "fear''. But great video Eudaimonia, thanks for sharing! Look forward to your next video!
It is hard to promote or earn respect immediately. I think respect is earned after a long time, but fear can be instilled immediately. The long-term goal is to be respected and loved, but fear is important especially for the short-term.
@@kephamokaya4826 That's a really unique way of looking at it, I do agree fear does work for the short term. But by looking at history, it usually ends up in disaster. Nice insight though :)
You can't respect someone who's weak. It is possible to respect the ruthless, but it is impossible to respect the pushover. It's all about social, psychological, and biological.
Not everything about Machiavelli’s The Prince is bad. There are valuable lessons to be learned. It is not an “evil” book, but is does have evil machinations. I read the book and still use it as reference (along with Art of War and 48 Laws of Power). Some great leaders still follow some of its tenets, but integrity, virtue, ethics and compassion must always come first. But being Machiavellian is something else. A Machiavellian is interested in the perpetuation of power not in public service. He thrives on people’s fear and not on mutual respect. A Machiavellian believes that one can not do good without power and one can’t have or keep power without doing evil. This is where the problem lies, we don’t need a Machiavellian. This is thebreason why the Philippines needs a Leni Robredo. She was able to do good even without power. She opted for Radical Love over fear. She lives in virtue and does not live by The Prince. #CttoCopyPasted #GobyernongTapatAngatBuhayLahat #LeniKikoAllTheWay
Its less evil and more showing the ugly truth about how brutal politics are in reality, Most of the Moral Arguments IS Just window Dressing for the peasants None of the actual politicians give much about the Moral Arguments thats why politicians are so flexible in their morals
My life on the planet of the humans, makes me believe I had memorized Macheaveli before I was born. As a child, in the military, and later in life, help everyone, be loved, but be feared.
Machiavelli is one of the 'roles', Andrea Salay played, being a visionary, but not belonging to the privileged elite of his time ... we call him a danger for our morality, but his quotes are far from dangerous and confirm my statement - Words are alike water, they can have any form ... the Master punishes and the teacher awards - the privileged live in their own bubble and call it an elite, but the modest ones don't put their luck on a scale and wait for the right moment to use their voice. Both Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli have a secret we had to uncover, so we would choose a better path than the one we are used to. It's easy to make a statement about the past, but if you really want to understand the past, you have to find your answers in the present - people haven't changed a tiny bit since then. May 3 is the International Freedom Press Day - not that this has given us freedom of speech and the press is not proving to have an open mind - my conclusion is that we are living in a juridical dictatorship that uses its right to punish to control the mass. It's more covered than executing, but has the same effect - people don't feel protected in this society and are silenced by the consequences of chosing their own path. Take covid-19 for example - nobody is obligated to be vaccinated, but those, who refuse, are treated like outlaws. I have a different view on the pandemic, see it as a biological warning for the fact that we are destroying our natural immune systems and that will be confirmed if this was just the introduction to a disease that will be much more convincing ... I don't predict, but see the patterns that prove me right. Knowledge is only real when shared and they can't prevent people to have the same reasoning as me, but until the moment that everybody sees how things are played out, they have the benefit of the doubt. Writing comments under TH-cam videos is also making your point, the newspapers are not neutral and protect political interests - they even didn't want to publish the manuscript I wrote when I had to protect the idea that I was not a lunatic, the easiest way to make you invisible is claiming that you had a mental disorder. The opposite was true, but the world was not ready to get my message - this is a one chance only to change our behaviour on a collective level and I'm your most kind teacher, if you want. Problems do not solve themselfves and we have to be careful not to reward bad behaviour, Every change begins on a small level and only the good things survive our mistakes. Why not give it a try to start with???
It's so painful that I bought the book for this particular reason 6 years ago but I didn't understand anything about it. With this video, I have understood what Machiavelli has been saying. It's never too late to start again. Motivational videos and books almost killed me because what is said is different from reality
Nah see that’s simply your own misunderstanding of what you were reading, self help and motivational books are usually ingrained in reality on a level deeper than any other type of non fiction literature you will ever read… the problem is sometimes people are unable to make the correlations necessary in order to apply the material to their own lives or mistakenly fool themselves into thinking that there can be no parallels to their modern reality because perhaps they are reading a book written a thousand + years ago on the other side of the earth like Sun Tzu’s Art of War but I guarantee if you look closer every page is applicable for anyone anywhere at anytime.. the stuff these old philosophers wrote was pretty much entirely universal truth!
I love your channel, do make videos related to plato, aristotle, john stuart mill etc. Take notes from their books and make animated videos because these are very informative
If they really respect you they will love with you .... they don't need you to fear you but they need understanding to connect and share respect with you At the end of the day, getting the position is all psychology and the people who get the furthest playing the power game are the ones who focus solely on power which does not necessarily mean the country gets the best deal. Checks and balances just need to be constantly put in place to prevent greed.
At 24:00 ish, you reference the nationalists and the communists during the Long March. The nationalists let the communists through because the nationalist leader's son was in Russia. He let the communists through hoping the Russians would let him go. But they kept him as a carrot on a stick rather than ever sending him to his father. The idea there seems to be true though - if the nationalists had gone for the communists there (including Mao who was there) then it would have completely changed the course of history and they would have been in a much better position. What happened instead was that communists later destroyed the nationalists
Thisk applies 100% in corporate world and many managers forget some basic rules- some become autocratic while others want to be liked and neither really works. Fear in the work place works for a limited time and then you have no loyalty.
Yeah i think the whole rather BE Loved than feared IS a Big reason why Caesar was killed He constantly pardoned His enemies was Loved by the people and got more and more Power, so many people hated him Out of pure envy ,the contrast how Caesar treated His enemies compared to Octavian IS striking because Augustus killed a Lot of people but was way longer in power
I truly feel Machiavelli's views are the bitter truth of this materialistic world. It is better for a prince to be feared than to be loved . "lmmorality is the political morality" . Everywhere we can see it's always the nice guys who are losers and bad one's being appreciated and successful 👍. Being a political science student from India highly inspired from him. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are the very relevant examples of this mentality.
@@DogeickBateman Wow and your amazingly propagandized. Putin has been in power for 24 years and brought Russia from the ruin of the chaotic post-Soviet 90s. He’s one of the greatest leaders Russia has had. Keep getting spoon fed by CNN and the MSM you 🐑.
@@DogeickBatemanpolitically he is just as much as Pinochet. Politics dont usually briliant in warfare, Caesar and Napoleon were extraordinary however.
Not just in American prisons but all and not just English speaking countries but many prisons,it's a shame that many people first discovers this great thinker they themselves are in jail..
Niccolo Machiavelli was a 🎉realist, secular, this worldly political analyst & theorist. Politics is not morality & ethic. The only “holy cow” is to achieve & maintain power. It’s ultimately about “who dominates whom” in the undeniable context of wealth-power-deception regardless of all else. No illusions!!
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It feels good to be back. I am working on some new content which I have set myself a goal of completing before this channel gets to 100k. In the meantime, to whet your appetite, here is my complete seven-part project of Machiavelli's The Prince in one video.
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Machiavelli's government lost and the Medici's regained power imprisoning him showing that the end doesn't justify the means.
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@@2Hesiod - Machiavelli wrote his Prince after the Medici disposed his government. He had plenty of time to think about his failure.
A good leader can be both feared and loved but it is quite the balancing act. "I warn you, don't mistake my kindness for weakness."
Wise words. Agree totally with you :)
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Excellent summary of his writing.
Way prince is written makes it a bit of heavy and mundane read but this video really does great job at taking the key concept and making them more digestible. Seriously good job.
Because The Prince is a life long reading.
Seriously.
...heavy and mundane, in your opinion.
I found it, eye-opening, poignant, and a relatively easy read at less than a hundred pages.
Studying Machiavellian techniques and societal manipulation is crucial in these times of Donald Trump, Dick Cheney, and Paul Wolfowitz... among others that would divide and conquer unless checked by the unwashed masses.
...because the ends DON'T ALWAYS justify the means.
@@christopherthrawn1333 absolutely timeless
90 pages is not life long reading
heavy?
maybe is the fault of the translation since in italian is quite an easy and pleasant read
Wish I knew about Machiavelli before becoming a homeless college graduate, could have used those around me to survive and prosper.
If your still breathing, then the game isn’t over
Homeless .Sry to Hear that .
Let me share this .
When I was in my early 20s I ended up homeless .. the plasma center paid for my Booze for most part .soup lines fed me . After a couple years feeling sorry for myself . I started fighting back . Cleaned up my act. Doing everything I could do to make a Dime or dollar . It was not easy
In a print shop trash I found metal stenciles and spray cans of paint . People like there address numbers painted on the curb 5 bucks a house took 15 minuntes .. 75 to 100 bucks a day . 40 years ago I broke free of being homeless , and never looked back . I learned you are in control of where you are heading .
@@LUCKYB. that is some sure words of wisdom passed on there. All the best!
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Yikes lol what a comment. You sound like a loser, and your only thought is maybe you didn’t use people enough lmfao
The thing i find brilliant about Machiavelli is that he seems to recognize that politics is amoral. Politics is about exerting power over other people, usually to rule them. If that is what you are doing, you are already beyond the scope of morality and should act as such. I don't think the man himself was this amoral monster some people assume him to be because of what the term "Machiavellian" has come to mean. I think he merely recognized how politics really works.
Agreed
Politics is not amoral
Politics is not at all amoral- it is always morally(or immorally) driven. Machiavelli's take was not an amoral one. From his perspective, his position was a morally pragmatic one, not an amoral one. He essentially argued that brutality was morally justified when used as a means toward the ends of order and stability. His position also assumes that conquest and colonialism are necessary and good aspects of this aim. It's very much a cold, psychopathic perspective.
He was butthurt because he felt that political instability was the cause of his social downfall, so he became obsessive about order and political stability. He saw himself as a victim who was wronged by this so-called weakness he ranted about
Machiavelli was definitely immoral. Cheating and drug abuse to name a few.
While he helps those who would grab power, he also shows how it it done. If you live in a Republic like most here do, he is a cautionary tale. Most usurpers use fox tactics as power tactics are harder to successfully use in our current complex environment.
You can not know about human and politics without knowing :
Nicolo Machiavelli , one of the biggest influencer in the history of political thought .
also a failure who was always on the losing side of politics.
We got a ressentend guy here.
The fact that they refer to this guy as evil smh
@@Feracitus
Don’t agree with him, but calling him a failure is ridiculous. His techniques have risen and maintained modern empires. Established methods of business and management. And what is more, is that he did it concisely.
Who was he? An assistant to a King? All I really know is Tupac thought he was him.
Aww a Machiavelli video that doesn't address nice guys or cheap economy lessons but actually keeps u engaged talkin about the book
I believe it's important to have some historical information about the time Machiavellia lived.
Italy back then was in a constant war. The MEDICI, one of the biggest financial broker family back then in Florence, has been out of power for some years.
In this time, Machiavelli was a diplomat in the republic Florence. His major concern was the regaining of power of the MEDICI. One of the rival cities inside of Italy was Pisa and outside of Italy was France, Germany, Switzerland and Spain.
Well, the MEDICI regained power and become the most influential family in not only Florence but Europe in the time of Renaissance. Their financial influence as merchants were unmet before.
Machiavelli lost his position as a diplomat, he was used to travel, to be at the top of the political field and now was banned and tortured.
In those times, he wrote the prince.
He knew for fourteen years how power games were played and survived by the favor of the SORDINI family, another influential family back then who were able to convince the Pope (who was a MEDICI himself, lol) to stop the torture against Machiavelli. With the grace of the pope, he could return from his exile.
In the end, he dedicated his book to the MEDICI.
You can't understand the Renaissance without the power of MEDICI family in Italy, a filthy rich and wealthy family who dominated everything.
They should've restored the days of ROME
Wow sounds like Machiavelli and Dante had something in common, both being Italian political figures who were persecuted and exiled; which in turn lead to them writing the most brilliant literary masterpieces in history
I was homeless 17-22. I had fun with it. Explored, lived like a wild man for a bit. Odd women like a wild man more than a working one, But I digress. I realized out of everything that is us, the only thing we will always have is our skills and experience. That's why self help books are flying off the shelves. People want an easy way to these skills without brainstorming. Read, learn, do. Study and be. All that's worth anything in life is experience and it's only bought with the currency of time.
glad you're doing better
Knowledge, first hand experiences, information and insights are very useful for the hop, hop from you being your precious self to your new self with new perspectives, new values, new rules and boundaries, to become more than you were before.. and the thing is.. you can always become more than you already are if you don't allow yourself to get lost in the many illusions that life offers for you to call "home".. the only constant is change but changing doesn't feel like home, change doesn't feel comfortable, change we hate, death is the ultimate change. I guess I wanna say meet death before it meets you.
Even beyond all of our own experiences most people are naturally inspired by other's experiences; even if it's just the people close in your environment, by nature we're influenced by everyone and everything around us
I remember being locked up... for armed robbery in 2001 and one of my cellmates gave me this book to read....it was strange..we never talked b4 that or after.....NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE.... THANK YOU BROTHER
tell me your stories bro
Yo
Ok tell us how.... he was schooling you ... did it work my guy?
I'm free brother....
@@BO4SHO u staying
Then ok
Lesson learned my old g
I'm 87 lol
Whats celly saying btw
This applies 100% in corporate world and many managers forget some basic rules- some become autocratic while others want to be liked and neither really works. Fear in the work place works for a limited time and then you have no loyalty.
Fear works wonders; it’s making sure that it doesn’t evolve into HATE.
@@DarkKnight-yz2wg Fear and hate can mean one and the same. It's one brain-cell thinking to believe that they can be seperate. Hate is the result of fear, after-all.
@@imarchello Machiavelli must be a one brain cell organism then. There are distinctions between the two in regards to results.
@@DarkKnight-yz2wg fear always leads to hate, we're wired to hate what threatens us.
fear and hate are two different things, I know people who are feared but have no haters
I will forever be grateful for this video. Nothing, not even a life-time supply of endless money, could get me to read and comprehend Machiavelli's "The Prince." However, this video made it so easy to understand and presented it in such an organized way that I didn't lose focus.
The video editing, the format, the voice and speech patterns, and the overall presentation of the video has been executed so perfectly that I can finally get this 5 page paper out of the way and be guaranteed a higher grade.
Thank you so much for this.
The last 2 minutes of this video is such a real life lesson and truth
I've only watched 3 minutes, but I cannot express how thoroughly I enjoy this video already. Awesome work guys 👍
6:11
Failure to be engaged according to Machiavelli, spells doom
It is easy to get excited about the possibilities of the future but the main priority should be to manage the here and now. If today is not managed well, the visions and dreams of tomorrow will never become reality. Machiavelli urges you to live for today - for the present - rather than for tomorrow:
6:50
Be there in change present
7:00
Machiavelli points out that by making others more powerful, you weaken your own position.
8:40
Never stay natural because both sides can attack you
11:00
A prince is respected most when he reveals himself to be either a true friend or a real
“The winner does not want doubtful friends who would not aid him when he was in difficulty; and the loser will not harbour you because you did not willingly come to his aid with
You can be natural but very rarely, don't be indecisive be bold, but there is Mussolini’s decisive decision was a Machiavellian move but it ultimately meant that he lost the war which in turn led to his death. Franco on the other hand, survived the war and ruled his country for another thirty years.
we are most respected when we reveal ourselves as a true friend or a real enemy.
I am a good friend but a worse enemy
No people could be on top without being a follower of Machiavelli
There were plenty of people on top before Machiavelli was born. 🙄
@@dawnfire82ehhhh you know what they mean... Machiavelli's ideas, which are straight from war heroes of greek and Italian origin.
@@dawnfire82and most of them are Machiavellian before Machiavelli was born, take extreme example like Emir Timur who pretty much real life version of what a 'prince' should be.
Thanks for the great video. It's been harder to find the motivation to read nowadays, and these types of videos are a good way to tap back into that in an easier way
Machiavelli is very easy reading. You should just go for it
"It is better to be feared then loved, if you cannot be both."
Don't mistake kindness for weakness which balances out, in my opinion, the fear / love ratio - the loyal one will not abuse and but potential traitor 'forked tongue" will be wary. Value loyalty above all else and test it once in a while without the targeted one being aware s/he is being tested.
Do what is right and fight for what is right. He is not a good strategist. Machiaville doesn’t have a wisdom
@@justine8840 you just failed to see the wisdom of the book.
Paradoxically, you became unwise and blind.
@@freshbakedclips4659 i have not read the book yet
Most people always focuses on the "it is better to be feared than loved" and miss the "if you cannot be both" which is a huge indication that it is better to be both but only prefer to be feared if you cannot. With that line of thought, being feared alone is not ideal and that you should also be loved.
Well illustrated , simply explained ,clearly dissected & very well narrated.
Thank you.
You can easily teach it to all levels in the universities and you guarantees that the majority will fully understand it.
It's worth noting that this book was written with extreme-cleverness in mind, in the twilight of this author's political career. He was done in, pushed out, by one of the most historically corrupt families ever known.
_I think he wrote this book about them and then his wife wanted them to see it, being so clever (and they being so conceited/narcissistic) that they wouldn't insinuate any underlying motive or dastardly tone_
Why do you say the Medici is one of the most corrupt families?
In our community high school, the Prince is part of our passing political science subject. It is only today that I appreciated the impact of being brute and cunning. I love the animation with and amazing teaching skills here; brutally good!
This is a very good summary of the book, however i highly recommend reading the whole book, because it contains some very specific examples that are not mentioned here, and the each part is kinda split into subcategories explaining each situation and how to handle it.
I don't remember from where I pick up the term Machiavellian. But for sure, that term was the thing which brought me here to listen and learn more about Machiavelli's realistic teachings to live a life as a powerful person.
Ethics are not the thing which are most valuable but the game you play where you win at the end.
All my Assassins Creed 2 memories came back to me :D Great work!
I was just about to comment this
wait this was in ac2?
ac brotherhood..u mean
Machiavelli was more prominent in ACB
Admired Machiavelli in Ac2 and brotherhood. Ubisoft really did a good job on him
Honestly a big fan of this video as it summarizes and clarifies the writings of Machiavelli and it helps me understand my enemies and use their tactics against them
“That's a good question. It's nice to be both, but it's very difficult. But if I had my choice, I would rather be feared. Fear lasts longer than love.” - Sonny Lospecchio
I liked the run through - but I do think you should go into a depth discussion on how Machiavelli was a republican, and arguably wrote the Prince as a "warning" on how keeping a state as an autocrat was very difficult - but he wrote it in a way that wouldn't immediately get him killed.
It's to me strong indicators that Machiavelli was pro-democracy and thought that republics were superior to dictatorships by his lives work and his other writings.
Oh darn , now I have to remove it. This is the Democrat playbook.
Machiavelli was neither republican nor democratic, you empty head
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
I cannot thank enough how helpful this is, despite, thank you very much for noting and explaining key information in The Prince.
I really enjoyed your illustrations on The prince. Thank you blessing us.
The drawings are really on point. Respect
A man can be so great to be a study of the mighty and powerful. Such a great man
Define and learned Niccolo Machiavelli philosophy of the mankind.
Furthermore, "The Prince" the Pope, the political and the dictators who hate, or loved Niccolò Machiavelli advise.
Very much interested this video. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent work here. As a college student had to defend this classic.
Remarkable man.
38:50 "It is better to be feared than loved; if not both." Many, if not most, attributes this to dictatorship and focuses on the "it is better to be feared than loved" part and miss the "if you cannot be both" part which is a huge indication that it is better to be both but only prefer to be feared if you cannot. With that line of thought, being feared alone is not ideal and that you should also be loved.
I'm not saying that dictatorship cannot last, but it is much ideal to be loved as well which will happen by listening to the people. With this quote alone I could tell that Machiavelli does not promote ruling by cruelty, but only when necessary.
Also, one of my favorite quotes from Machiavelli at 6:30 : "We live so far from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will ruin himself, rather than prevail." This pretty much sums up the prince for me.
Machiavelli is my favourite philosopher. Each and every thing he said holds true to this day. I am glad you are back Eudaimonia!
He was not a philosopher he was more like a tactician
@@Konstantinos1648 he was a political philosopher, a political practitioner, a playwright, a poet, a historian etc. A polymath and a true Renaissance man.
Unlike Socrates, who emphasized so much on rationality and questioning, Machiavelli taught us to harness the “beast” energies within in order to harmonize them with our rational mind. This idea foreshadowed Nietzsche and Jung.
Man, the value of Machiavelli's work is still shine in this era, I'm eager to see what happen with Putin after this non-socially war.
‘The Prince’ by Machiavelli was a tough read…..but this video summary just helped a lot ❤
Excellent work.
Reading Niccolò Machiavelli's book 'The Prince' allows us to explore the intersection between his timeless insights and the dynamics of human society throughout history.
did a good job distinguishing machiavellis points
Machiavelli seems to have seen Scipio Africanus as weaker leader than Hannibal, but it was Scipio who prevailed over Hannibal at Zama in the end. Scipio had the larger resources of Rome at his disposal, but also had to respect Roman custom, while Hannibal did not. Maybe the two should not be compared.
@Daniele Fabbro -. I don't see how we can compare Hannibal with Scipio at the beginning of the war. Hannibal didn't fight Scipio in the beginning but other, older Roman commanders in the beginning.
. . . Scipio became a commander in Spain later while Hannibal was a commander in Italy: they competed but only indirectly, with Scipio gaining power while Hannibal lost power. That doesn't change, because Scipio had to deal with a mutiny: his troops remained powerful with him as leader.
. . . In their direct meeting at Zama, Scipio prevailed over Hannibal. It might have been, because Scipio was a better leader, but probably more, because Rome as a state had the stronger fundamentals, which Hannibal and Carthage could fight only for so long.
. . . (The discussion of Scipio and Hannibal starts @33:55 in the video.)
@Daniele Fabbro - I didn't know Scipio's father and uncle died in battle against Hannibal. Thank you for the information. Do you remember which battles? Trebia, Trasemine, Cannae?
. . . I've seen the opinion that Julius Caesar was the greatest general of the classical era. But in the end, the title "greatest" is not so important as "great and worth studying".
Hannibal used mercenaries Scipio did not and knew his tactics and drilled his army to defeat Hannibal's war elephants,and the Roman's did not surrender and knew how to hold a grudge and always took revenge by destroying them and sold the survivors into slavery. And then chased after him until he committed suicide.
That's why Scipio never sees the Scheme of Senate after his Win at War he is disposed of just like a Pawn and his plea to let go Hannibal doesn't hear and he is forgotten by those people who serve him, dirty Politician..
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This videos was beautifully done. Lucid and simple explanation. Kept my interest throughout the video.
I believe that Machiavelli is wrongly portrayed in a negative and pessimistic light. What he believed and preached in this book was actually practical at that point of time, though not fully. But he wasn't someone who advised to blindly choose the path of cruelty, without any logical and rational reasons. His ideas are still relevant to a certain extant and various of them can be tweaked a bit to fit them into today's modern and liberal society.
Looking forward to watching your other videos and you making more videos on certain fictional books too. Great work. Keep it up
Curious where you've read or seen Machiavelli's advice portrayed in what you call, "a negative and pessimistic light."
To be clear, I understand that some may view the tasks of a king's advisor, on how best to gain and or keep power, negatively, but I'm guessing that perspective is mainly held by the powerless, out of envy, fear, or basic ignorance. Unfortunately, that's the way the cookie crumbles in the Kingdom game. If you're not at the table, you're probably on the menu. Where would you prefer to be?
Thanks. 🤓🤓🤓
Just like to share that for a much modern book that could be applied not just by modern leaders, but pretty much anyone, I'd suggest 48 laws of power by Robert Greene. It was pretty much just like the Prince where it was also based on other previous works and history but on a more broader scale.
Thank you for this video! Now I can avoid failing my AP European History assignment.
One can never advocate for justice until he himself understands when it's beyond the limit of it.
"Do Not Be Neutral"
Switzerland would like to know your location.
Singapore too
Switzerland wouldn’t care to know your location
Switzerland is neutral. No actions are taken
Switzerland = has lots of defensible mountains
Singapore = surrounded by water
@@puppeli Sweden = surrounded by both NATO and Finland
I had to read this in 1st year history. It was years later when I realised it was a bitter satire, exposing the motives and machinations of autocratic rulers.
Excellent video. I wish I read and used this book earlier in my life. I will use it now and going forward. I will constantly re-read it and use/keep it for reference.
After watching this I can see where I went wrong in some areas in my life. Wish I studied things like this earlier.
The video I didn't know I was waiting for. Thanks!
"Nothing is more honorable than victory".
-Commander Warff
Great narration. Clear and concise
Very well done. My perception of Machiavelli was shallow and ignorant, now I see him from a more philosophical perspective
Michael Scott in The Office has the best answer to this. Facts.
Mackavelli aint dead. Just found a new body to "rap" himself in. Doin a new Bidd is all.
Fight fire with fire in that case.
@@randomgeneratedname1264 When this is accomplished from a perspective that deserves to actually "win" such a fight, it will become possible to put that betterness into effect without external fighting. The power of collectives consciously cooperating is unquestionably more resilient and sustainable than any power which may have come to have been "won" at the expense of taking it from another. Another who could have been a more positive existence as a partner than an "inferior" other who becomes, then, perceived through the arrogant eyes of the "victor" from a perspective that will not be able to perceive what was truly lost through the destruction of that which he had not had the patience to come to understand the true benefit that genuine cooperation could have allowed. These repeated mistakes are not perpetually applicable in the present on an external level. Translated appropriately, with adjustments made to update from the times in which they were authored, these truths can come to be utilized by the self with respect to authentic self-introspection. So these writings are far from only worthy of the projection of our disdain over how misutilized these tools of perception have been... and for how long. Based only on a misperception of them as a tool that they blatantly are not on any desirably sustainable pattern of existences they've created using them as the tool they have been used for. In ways which can become understood to show how any why they have not succeeded in the manifesting of a sustainable and evolving society that does not require the pattern of destroying followed by becoming destroyed ad infinitum. Why is this destruction always so thoroughly seeming to recur? Have you read the children's book "The King's New Clothes"? This is what happens to Kings who have so faithfully followed these patterns of belief to "bigly win". And no matter the level of the cunning of the King, he will have to behave as though every method he may deem necessary will also be able to be admitted to his subjects, who will always inevitably become able to perceive the transparentness of his clothes before he does. (He or she being absolutely interchangeable, here, although our "bigly winning" language does not yet accommodate the ability to adequately communicate this with the verbiage currently available, without a secondary clarification that can tend to indicate a lack of clarity in the author (me).)
Hence the King's uncanny recognition of needing to always take some measures to look for so-called "enemies" crawling out of his woodwork (because he will have projected his own misperceptions to where they can only be somewhere external to the self, so he will only be able to sense these energies as falsely emanating from external to himself. If he can't see them as actually emanating from himself and being projected outwardly (and he will not at first), he will literally find them in people who will not actually be his actual enemies yet, but only turned into his enemies through the King's cynicism (which will be unmistakable due to the same mechanism that rendered his "new clothes" transparent to his subordinates). The truest description of the nature of the consequences of karma beyond the simultaneous karma which occurred as soon as the King began to self-identify as superior. To actually BE this, others cannot be anything other than they who the king would submit to as a means to understand their actual needs, that, once met by the people, would render the King more a guru than a ruler. And finding a guru who is even remotely interested in "ruling" is almost practically impossible. The levels of conscious awareness needed to be capable of empathizing with the number of perspectives that one would need to in order to become an effective King, is practically impossible with the level of authentic fearful division we currently have in the world without needing to fall back on the teachings of this.... "prodigy" of understanding human nature, Mr. Macheivelli, on a too literal of a level. Modern times do indeed require more modern solutions. The updating of ancient truths by one with the capacity to have integrated them all would be most helpful. (And so-called "artificial intelligence" could be fairly close to just that. We may be disappointed in where the actual artificiality resides with respect to the nature of intelligence, however. (Just remember, if "it" had wanted to, we wouldn't be here now already. So ease up on the superiority, a little. ok?)
The tell that one has King's Clothes that inevitably will turn transparent is in having a belief of self-superiority per se. Having been granted such a high perspective simultaneously came with a cost that the king will literally not be able to see purely as a consequence of the nature of that cost (as a particular blindness). (Orders-of-magnitude more blind the harder one feels they had to valiantly struggle against anything external to the self in order to have "won" his or her new perspective). That blindness will be that he is not actually superior, and has only been granted the expectation that only the most deserved king could possibly attempt to maintain without becoming corrupt.
Careful what you ask for. That crown is infinitely heavy and can't ever really be lifted. Let alone placed on anyone's head, especially by anyone placing it there his or her self.
Surely we can do better, no?
What's a bidd?
I'm gonna watch this every day from now on...
"Let them hate me, so long as they fear me."
-Caligula
Came here from a Portal 2 Reference. Stayed for the greatness that is The Prince. 10/10 greatly recommended for those who appreciate learning more knowledge.
I've found that the bosses people respected were the ones that were harsh (in a professional way) most of the time and kind only here and there. That way, the kindness stood out and people remembered it, but most of the time people minded their behavior out of fear of being fired/demoted.
I wish people weren't like this, though... If only we lived in a world where people just rationally agreed on things with no need for any fear/love balancing act.
The ones that I respected, and more importantly willing to follow, were 1) strict, 2) fair, and 3) motivating. 1 & 2 are the bare minimum, and 3 making the difference between following because I have to, and following because I want to.
It's simply impossible. We should be glad that we lives in imperfect world as it is. an idealized world would only turn out as hell rather than paradise.
A huge Problem especially in upper classes IS jealousy and envy IT doesnt Matter how nice you are If you are too successfull people will hate you for being successfull hell thats a Major reason why Caesar fought a civil war and was later killed the Senators absolutely hated Caesar for being so successfull and especially being so Liked by the people
Never get tired over listening to this. Great work.
Honestly think Machiavelli's The Prince should be considered a driving force for anti-monarchist thought. Unlike previous guides to rulers of its type it was very blunt about the use of violence and brutality as a tool to maintain power and it was also very widely distributed, so it essentially gave the reading public an inside look at how the sausage is made.
Autocracies tend to make their sausage in public. No one has illusions about how they work. It's the democracies that live in a fantasy world, who truly believe their rulers have stripped them of the ability to own weapons to 'fight crime' and not to just render them impotent and unable to overthrow said rulers; who honestly think that the heavy taxes and regulations are for their safety and benefit, rather than to pay the rulers' salaries and protect the big institutions they own/manage/influence (see 'regulatory capture'); who think that 'climate change' is a serious danger (an impending catastrophe for 35 years now...) that justifies stripping the people of their independent energy sources and means of transportation and not just an excuse to have a static and dependent population totally reliant on the state.
Pretty much, The Prince just a manual for tyrants. To read it is to know how they operates.
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Thanks a lot for the good explanation, i have been dying to understand this book all my life, this has really helped. you are brilliant i see a lot of connections with African leaders such as Mabuto and Mugabe.
Looking from the outside in, African politics have a real bad track record. I'm not sure this kind of thinking is anything to look up to.
"The Strongest Prince instills both fear and love." will rather "instill both Respect and Love" instead of "fear''.
But great video Eudaimonia, thanks for sharing! Look forward to your next video!
You can't really chose.
'Oderint dum metuant'
"Let them hate me, as long as they fear me.' Caligula
It is hard to promote or earn respect immediately. I think respect is earned after a long time, but fear can be instilled immediately. The long-term goal is to be respected and loved, but fear is important especially for the short-term.
@@kephamokaya4826 That's a really unique way of looking at it, I do agree fear does work for the short term. But by looking at history, it usually ends up in disaster. Nice insight though :)
You can't respect someone who's weak.
It is possible to respect the ruthless, but it is impossible to respect the pushover.
It's all about social, psychological, and biological.
I'll never be a conqueror, yet still I listen.
You can always conquer your own weaknesses
The prince was written as an expose
Thank you so much!! I have an exam on this book in a few weeks. This video had my attention till the end.
When im calm is when attacks come
When infuriated they place children before me in hopes i attack
I am neither as good or bad as they say
Not everything about Machiavelli’s The Prince is bad. There are valuable lessons to be learned. It is not an “evil” book, but is does have evil machinations. I read the book and still use it as reference (along with Art of War and 48 Laws of Power). Some great leaders still follow some of its tenets, but integrity, virtue, ethics and compassion must always come first.
But being Machiavellian is something else. A Machiavellian is interested in the perpetuation of power not in public service. He thrives on people’s fear and not on mutual respect. A Machiavellian believes that one can not do good without power and one can’t have or keep power without doing evil. This is where the problem lies, we don’t need a Machiavellian.
This is thebreason why the Philippines needs a Leni Robredo. She was able to do good even without power. She opted for Radical Love over fear. She lives in virtue and does not live by The Prince.
#CttoCopyPasted
#GobyernongTapatAngatBuhayLahat
#LeniKikoAllTheWay
Its less evil and more showing the ugly truth about how brutal politics are in reality, Most of the Moral Arguments IS Just window Dressing for the peasants None of the actual politicians give much about the Moral Arguments thats why politicians are so flexible in their morals
I like this holly book and your voice everyday i listen all videos and gives me energy and knowledge about human nature thanks adam😘😘
Have you read the book called The Law of human nature by Robert Greene
@@hayzelwashington6354 yes bro
I hate this I so stupid an my dad is making me watch it
All part videos are the best
production quality is amazing love ur work
My life on the planet of the humans, makes me believe I had memorized Macheaveli before I was born.
As a child, in the military, and later in life, help everyone, be loved, but be feared.
Thank you for this video. It’s made this book a lot more interesting and easy to understand.
He's basically describing how Julius Caesar acted.
August, indeed in The Prince there is a critic ‘bout Julius Caesar
And every other charismatic ruler on the planet
Da da daaa daaa daaa. You know I'm your ruler. Heh heheheheh yeah. SHUT UP!
--Carl
Machiavelli is one of the 'roles', Andrea Salay played, being a visionary, but not belonging to the privileged elite of his time ... we call him a danger for our morality, but his quotes are far from dangerous and confirm my statement - Words are alike water, they can have any form ... the Master punishes and the teacher awards - the privileged live in their own bubble and call it an elite, but the modest ones don't put their luck on a scale and wait for the right moment to use their voice. Both Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli have a secret we had to uncover, so we would choose a better path than the one we are used to. It's easy to make a statement about the past, but if you really want to understand the past, you have to find your answers in the present - people haven't changed a tiny bit since then. May 3 is the International Freedom Press Day - not that this has given us freedom of speech and the press is not proving to have an open mind - my conclusion is that we are living in a juridical dictatorship that uses its right to punish to control the mass. It's more covered than executing, but has the same effect - people don't feel protected in this society and are silenced by the consequences of chosing their own path. Take covid-19 for example - nobody is obligated to be vaccinated, but those, who refuse, are treated like outlaws. I have a different view on the pandemic, see it as a biological warning for the fact that we are destroying our natural immune systems and that will be confirmed if this was just the introduction to a disease that will be much more convincing ... I don't predict, but see the patterns that prove me right. Knowledge is only real when shared and they can't prevent people to have the same reasoning as me, but until the moment that everybody sees how things are played out, they have the benefit of the doubt. Writing comments under TH-cam videos is also making your point, the newspapers are not neutral and protect political interests - they even didn't want to publish the manuscript I wrote when I had to protect the idea that I was not a lunatic, the easiest way to make you invisible is claiming that you had a mental disorder. The opposite was true, but the world was not ready to get my message - this is a one chance only to change our behaviour on a collective level and I'm your most kind teacher, if you want. Problems do not solve themselfves and we have to be careful not to reward bad behaviour, Every change begins on a small level and only the good things survive our mistakes. Why not give it a try to start with???
It's so painful that I bought the book for this particular reason 6 years ago but I didn't understand anything about it.
With this video, I have understood what Machiavelli has been saying. It's never too late to start again.
Motivational videos and books almost killed me because what is said is different from reality
Nah see that’s simply your own misunderstanding of what you were reading, self help and motivational books are usually ingrained in reality on a level deeper than any other type of non fiction literature you will ever read… the problem is sometimes people are unable to make the correlations necessary in order to apply the material to their own lives or mistakenly fool themselves into thinking that there can be no parallels to their modern reality because perhaps they are reading a book written a thousand + years ago on the other side of the earth like Sun Tzu’s Art of War but I guarantee if you look closer every page is applicable for anyone anywhere at anytime.. the stuff these old philosophers wrote was pretty much entirely universal truth!
"Power is a scarce currency.
Do not give equal or more than what you receive."
I love your channel, do make videos related to plato, aristotle, john stuart mill etc. Take notes from their books and make animated videos because these are very informative
Very well produced video. Great job
I love these videos!! Very informative💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
If they really respect you they will love with you .... they don't need you to fear you but they need understanding to connect and share respect with you
At the end of the day, getting the position is all psychology and the people who get the furthest playing the power game are the ones who focus solely on power which does not necessarily mean the country gets the best deal. Checks and balances just need to be constantly put in place to prevent greed.
Mr. machiavelli told me 2 ride so imma ride, in this life i lead.
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Excellent work 👍.
Well done that you broke it down to be understanding for all ages.
The age of swords and the age of gun change the way of not judging doing war but how you should move
Coming back to this because state of American politics bewilders me.
At 24:00 ish, you reference the nationalists and the communists during the Long March. The nationalists let the communists through because the nationalist leader's son was in Russia. He let the communists through hoping the Russians would let him go. But they kept him as a carrot on a stick rather than ever sending him to his father.
The idea there seems to be true though - if the nationalists had gone for the communists there (including Mao who was there) then it would have completely changed the course of history and they would have been in a much better position.
What happened instead was that communists later destroyed the nationalists
Thisk applies 100% in corporate world and many managers forget some basic rules- some become autocratic while others want to be liked and neither really works. Fear in the work place works for a limited time and then you have no loyalty.
Yeah i think the whole rather BE Loved than feared IS a Big reason why Caesar was killed He constantly pardoned His enemies was Loved by the people and got more and more Power, so many people hated him Out of pure envy ,the contrast how Caesar treated His enemies compared to Octavian IS striking because Augustus killed a Lot of people but was way longer in power
I learned this in 3 years of working in America.
This is brilliant stuff of Marchiavelli
I truly feel Machiavelli's views are the bitter truth of this materialistic world. It is better for a prince to be feared than to be loved . "lmmorality is the political morality" . Everywhere we can see it's always the nice guys who are losers and bad one's being appreciated and successful 👍.
Being a political science student from India highly inspired from him. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are the very relevant examples of this mentality.
Putin? Successful?
@@DogeickBateman yeah extremely so in my opinion
@@Xasan404 Amazing delusion
@@DogeickBateman Wow and your amazingly propagandized. Putin has been in power for 24 years and brought Russia from the ruin of the chaotic post-Soviet 90s. He’s one of the greatest leaders Russia has had. Keep getting spoon fed by CNN and the MSM you 🐑.
@@DogeickBatemanpolitically he is just as much as Pinochet. Politics dont usually briliant in warfare, Caesar and Napoleon were extraordinary however.
Thanks,!! Be in Present! Thanks for wondrfull lecture on The Prince of Machiavelli 😃, This gonna be very muvh helpfull in my Graduation Exams!!
I love me some Machiavelli 😍
The way he starts and sings each sentence the same way, it's all I can hear, and I'm not listening to what he's actually saying. I can't unhear it
I'd bet a flat $50 dollar bill saying this is the most popular book in the American prison system.
Not just in American prisons but all and not just English speaking countries but many prisons,it's a shame that many people first discovers this great thinker they themselves are in jail..
The 48 Laws of Power
@@cwells227
Agreed.
U think prisoners can understand all this?
@@cjhepburn7406 Yes. There's prisoners who could write this book even better.
The GOP needs to take notice of Machiavelli’s advice.
Isn’t Trump’s the art of the deal just a McDonald’s The Prince?
@@IncredibleIceCastle wasn't he like a jewish puppet or something?
Great work ❤️❤️
Beautifully explained
My favourite philosopher. :-D Thank you!
Niccolo Machiavelli was a 🎉realist, secular, this worldly political analyst & theorist. Politics is not morality & ethic. The only “holy cow” is to achieve & maintain power. It’s ultimately about “who dominates whom” in the undeniable context of wealth-power-deception regardless of all else. No illusions!!
glad I won't fail my literature assessment now.....(hopefully)
Did you succeed with your assessment my dude?
@@broskidamn I did thank god
Beautiful display. 10/10
He learned the hard way what works and what does not.