The Origin of Civil Society

These justifications are the justification of the state and justification of rights . The scheme that Nicollo Machiavelli is trying to portray about civil society is that there is a limit outside the control of the ruler in a state which is directly given . The ruler of the society must be aware of the strength of independence in the society . But since the principle of the political morality is included in the thinking of Machiavelli about the civil society , the contents of the strength of independence is subserved . Indeed , Machiavelli believed that ethical

and moral values are not included in the characteristics of a political society . In politics , those people who seek to govern or to take power

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by means of spiritual values are expected to fail . Instead of successful governance , they will bring misery and poverty to the people of the society

Furthermore , Machiavelli had stated in his The Prince ' that the characteristics of all men at all times are unpredictable . Men are also ungrateful , simulators and dissimulators . Most of the time , men is also a running away of danger and always very eager to succeed . This is the reason why there are individuals in a society that are always pleasing and soothing . In contrast of the soothing and pleasing individuals in a society , there are those who are also who 's human nature is really leading astray but can also be converted to be soothing and pleasing

In Machiavelli 's the Prince , it is also stated there that all principalities listed in history is either ruled in two opposing ways This is either by a prince to whom every individual in the society is submissive or a prince wherein he was able to become a prince not because of favors from...