The essential question that we had to answer for this lesson was how did wealth in Florence lead to new art and ideas during the Renaissance? During this lesson we went through a bunch of activities including looking at a map and answering questions to analyzing an article and answering questions on that. We learned a lot about patronage and many more things.
A prince would rather be loved by his subjects instead of being feared. If a prince was feared people would do anything for him but then turn on him at any moment. If a prince were to be loved, the people would also do everything for him but not betray him or anything. Men/people respond better to someone they fear because they know that if they don't respond or obey that person there will be consequences. Being feared is not the same as being hated. Being feared is basically a person fearing someone for the way they act or behave towards other people while being hated is a persons choice on whether they wan to dislike someone or not.
I disagree with Machiavelli's ideas about leadership. Leaders should be able to rule anyway they want and it doesn't matter if they are loved or feared. they have put that upon themselves and it is their job to fix it whether they do it by force or try to change themselves. I don't think that leaders today should use his philosophy. Leaders today have enough common sense to do what is right and wrong.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/prince-excerp.asp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FFDJK8jmms&feature=youtu.be
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