The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781480427983
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Unternehmensstrategie

The world's most influential—and controversial—treatise on politics
Composed in exile and published posthumously, The Prince is Niccolò Machiavelli's legacy and the foundation of modern political theory. Drawing on his firsthand experiences as a diplomat and military commander in the Florentine Republic, Machiavelli disregards the rhetorical flourishes and sentimentality typically found in sixteenth-century mirrors for princes —guides instructing noblemen in the fine art of ruling—and gets straight to practical matters: how to eliminate rivals, when to use force, whether it is better to be loved or feared.
 
For its cold-blooded candor and unrepentant assertion that immorality can be a political virtue, The Prince was censured and Machiavelli's name became synonymous with evil. Yet five centuries' worth of political thinkers and leaders, from Thomas Cromwell to Francis Bacon to Napoleon Bonaparte to John Adams to Joseph Stalin, have turned to this slim volume for guidance and inspiration, because its advice on the acquisition and preservation of power contains the wisdom of experience—and, most importantly of all, because it works.
 
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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I — HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, AND BY WHAT MEANS THEY ARE ACQUIRED
• CHAPTER II — CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES
• CHAPTER III — CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES
• CHAPTER IV — WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AT HIS DEATH
• CHAPTER V — CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES THAT LIVED UNDER THEIR OWN LAWS BEFORE THEY WERE ANNEXED
• CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES, WHICH ARE ACQUIRED BY ONE’S OWN ARMS AND ABILITY
• CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES, WHICH ARE ACQUIRED EITHER BY THE ARMS OF OTHERS OR BY GOOD FORTUNE
• CHAPTER VIII — CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINCIPALITY BY WICKEDNESS
• CHAPTER IX — CONCERNING A CIVIL PRINCIPALITY
• CHAPTER X — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCIPALITIES OUGHT TO BE MEASURED
• CHAPTER XI — CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES
• CHAPTER XII — HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE, AND CONCERNING MERCENARIES
• CHAPTER XIII — CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AND ONE’S OWN
• CHAPTER XIV — THAT WHICH CONCERNS A PRINCE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ART OF WAR
• CHAPTER XV — CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OR BLAMED
• CHAPTER XVI — CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS
• CHAPTER XVII — CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED
• CHAPTER XVIII — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH
• CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED
• CHAPTER XX — ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHICH PRINCES OFTEN RESORT, ADVANTAGEOUS OR HURTFUL?
• CHAPTER XXI — HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS TO GAIN RENOWN
• CHAPTER XXII — CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES
• CHAPTER XXIII — HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
• CHAPTER XXIV — WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES
• CHAPTER XXV — WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS AND HOW TO WITHSTAND HER
• CHAPTER XXVI — AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS
• DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODS ADOPTED BY THE DUKE VALENTINO WHEN MURDERING VITELLOZZO VITELLI, OLIVEROTTO DA FERMO, THE SIGNOR PAGOLO, AND THE DUKE DI GRAVINA ORSINI
• THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA
• Copyright Page