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    Machiavelli's The Prince outlines that a leader should be ruthless and cruel to maintain power, prioritizing results over morality. The document's author disagrees with this view, finding that current leaders like Duterte and Trump emulate this approach in harmful ways like extrajudicial killings and stoking racial divisions. A better model is a leader who balances situations fairly and promotes peaceful diversity.

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    MARIANNE GAIL Z.

    CARIÑO AB POLITICAL SCIENCE 3A

    || CRITIQUE ON NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI’S THE PRINCE ||

    It seems that our leaders today, such as Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte, are
    living up to some of the Machiavellian principles presented in The Prince. Niccolo
    Machiavelli offered his knowledge on the conduct of great men in his book which mainly
    discussed what a prince should be and how he should handle the state. His ideas were
    presented in a surprisingly simple tone, plain and direct style. The 26 chapters of The
    Prince talks about the types of principalities or states, the types of armies and how the
    prince should act as a military leader, the characteristics and behavior of the prince, and
    Italy’s political situation of his time.

    According to Machiavelli, a prince should rather be stingy than generous and


    cruel than merciful, a breaker of promises when keeping it would be against one’s
    interests, he should avoid being hated and despised, he should also undertake projects to
    enhance his reputation, and must choose wise advisors but avoid flatterers. He also
    discussed the relationship between Virtù, Fortuna, and Free Will wherein Fortuna is like
    destiny which may be defeated by Virtù (the drive, talent, or ability directed toward the
    achievement of certain goals). The prince should have Virtù as it is said to be the most
    vital quality of a ruler/leader so that in the event that he is faced by a Fortuna when
    running the state, he could meet it head on and bend it, if possible, to one's own will or
    his will.

    If asked whether I agree or not to Machiavelli’s points, I will have to disagree.


    His points are often contradicting yet his ruthlessness and mercilessness is evident. He
    even made his famous statement that “men should either be caressed or destroyed,”
    meaning that if you must harm people, harm them so severely that they will not be able to
    take revenge on you. The book also famously argues that the ends should justify the
    means no matter how immoral it is. Machiavelli believed that leaders must “act against
    mercy, against faith, against humanity, against frankness, against religion, in order to
    preserve the state.”

    Sounds familiar, right? Our very own president and USA presidential candidate is
    somehow acting this way. Duterte is ordering us to kill suspected drug pushers to purge
    the country of drugs, ignoring the fact that these suspected people have human rights, too.
    Trump is also very arrogant when talking about how other races doesn’t belong to the US
    and is asking his followers to help him in his campaign to make America great again.
    These leaders are not my kind of leaders. I believe in leaders who can balance out
    situations to give fair treatment to all. We are living in a different time after all. We could
    live in peace and diversity without aggravating others.

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