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The Prince "became a symbol of a way of acting in politics that's commonly understood to be amoral, if not immoral," says Bruce Douglass, a professor of government at Georgetown University. "That's probably an incorrect characterization. If you look carefully at the work, it's more that Machiavelli is proposing practices that would be immoral in ordinary life.
-> So ‘The Prince is understood to be amoral’ is an incorrect characterization here. But, if we look carefully at the work, something Machiavelli is proposing is immoral? I don’t understand what that paragraph means. So should that be understood to be immoral or moral?
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I think Douglass is trying to say that practices that Machiavelli proposes are immoral when they occur in ordinary life but moral when they occur in politics. Others may have different interpretations. CJ
- I think Douglass is trying to say that practices that Machiavelli proposes are immoral when they occur in ordinary life but moral when they occur in politics.
- Others may have different interpretations.
- CJ
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I think Douglass is trying to say that practices that Machiavelli proposes are immoral when they occur in ordinary life but moral when they occur in politics.
Others may have different interpretations.
CJ
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