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Machiavelli and the Modern Philosophical Thought

Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher who lived between 1469 and 1527 and had an immense influence on modern philosophical and political thought with his writings . He was a political thinker and a political figure as the Civil Servant of the Florentine Republic and later on the Second Secretary of the Republic of Florence . He is considered the father of modern political theory nowadays . His ideas made a huge difference in modern political thought

because they were practical and aimed at changing and not just theorizing which as a result shaped the intellectual atmosphere of Western Civilization . His personal journey influenced his philosophical thoughts in a significant way . His arrest and torture for instance after the dissolution of the Florence Republic , impacted his views and desire for a republican form of government with liberty and self-governing as main features . These ideas that are dominantly present in the current forms of governments around the world are especially well presented in his famous work The Prince (Morgan 477 .This book helped transform the discourse of political thought from idealism to realism . Machiavelli 's work brought the discourse of political thought that had been mainly dominated by the Greek idealistic form of philosophy , to another more realistic and modern level that has continued to be part of our modern philosophical thinking up to the present day

To grasp the significant impact Machiavelli 's book The Prince made it...