[VIDEO] Well I should know this from taking political philosophy in college. The question here is whether or not Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince was describing how one should acquire power or is he just detailing the reality of how power is acquired.
It was even connected with later works of political philosophy which often describes how a society should be governed vs the reality of how a society is governed. Amongst other later works that The Prince influenced included Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan or John Locke's Second Treatise of Gov't. Now that I think about it, time to start reading.
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