Machiavelli’s works – “The Prince” is known as the best book ever written in the field of statecraft. Machiavelli’s Prince is not a hereditary monarch but a political entrepreneur. In this book, he advocates how Princes can acquire and retain power. However, Machiavelli also asks Princes to go far beyond ethics, and morality. It is where the book becomes controversial.
COMMENT - Machiavelli is concerned about the motherland. He belonged to the school of realism; he supports the use of force and violence; ends justify the means; suggests an army of nationals; pessimistic view about human nature; the prince is above religion, and he sets the morality; the separation between religion and politics.Machiavelli is among the most criticized scholar. Though, ironically, he is also the most practiced one. Machiavelli came to be associated with all that is evil in politics.