Machiavelli • The Prince • The Common Sense of Politics (full documentary)

"Rivers are not to be trusted, neither are men - but both can often be controlled, given intelligence and power and the willingness to get your hands dirty" - Machiavelli.

A documentary on Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3rd 1469 -- June 21st 1527) author of a short political treatise, iL Principe (a.k.a. The Prince) written in 1513 and addressed to the ruling power at the material time, but not published until 1532. The documentary depicts the treatise in general with thoughts by Henry Kissinger, Gary Hart and Robert Harriman amongst others and is a controversial study on the Art of Politics which contemporaries have dubbed The Common Sense of Politics.

In 1512, de Medici was restored to power and Machiavelli, a Florentine public official, fell from his favor and was exiled to the countryside. In exile he wrote the treatise and presented it to de Medici, hoping to regain favor, but his effort failed.

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[RelativistSlayer]

@NewWorldEconomics lmao.. how very naive... it is power and force that runs the world it always has... and absent some massive ideological and perhaps even physical evolution of the species... it always will.

[quirkyathena]

@tmpeters: thx for uploading!

Stunning classical piece at 8:18 -- anyone an idea who this is from?

A butter-on-the-soul one, fantastic!

[samboraisgod2000]

oh who is the narrator on this? I'm sure it's a famous actor, I recognise his voice and it's driving me mad!

[youngian]

@growchron

That's how it came across to me and like many realists are closet idealists trying to explain how the world is if we do strive for a higher order.

[ChaosButterfly8]

☠ Machiavelli ☠

[growchron]

@NewWorldEconomics The establishment of a republic involves a Prince who may have to commit terrible deeds in order to begin the ascending process of building a true republic. Study the myth of Romulus and Remus. Machiavelli praises Romulus (founder of Rome) precisely because he was able to do what was necessary in order to usher in a peaceful form of government that lasted nearly 500 years. Too many people jump to conclusions without doing any real research for themselves.

[growchron]

@NewWorldEconomics I'm afraid you're terribly wrong and it is clear that you've never actually read any of Machiavelli's works yourself, particularly the Discourses on Livy. One of Machiavelli's main tenants is that the nature of man has not changed over the ages, hence why he utilizes ancient history to illustrate why events are happening in the present and what possible outcomes the future may bring. Machiavelli is anything but a psychopath. His main goal was establishing a true republic.

[NewWorldEconomics]

Machiavellian Political Philosophy is Psychopathic. Machiavellianism is for sociopaths prue and simple it may have worked in the past but as in the information age evolves The sociopaths political behavior will be found out a punished.

[NewWorldEconomics]

In the information age 15th and 16th century Machiavellian Political Philosophy no longer works.This Psychopathic Philosophy hidden under the disguise of Political Pragmatism; breeds Sociopaths in politics.These people are soon found out for example: the 9/11 demolition murders and the War Iraq that followed . The New World leader must have a internalized Ethic and not this Psychopathic philosophy. As the new Economics and Ethics Evolves there are ways to punish these psychopathic offenders.

[DrewAnti1960]

Machiavellianism is an art in manipulation and using people fueled by pure ambition.