Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli
The name Machiavelli may ring a bell to you. Well, within the past ten years a now deceased music artist used his name, maybe not the most important view of his name, but it opened my eyes to a new person of thought. You may have heard of him as “the man who faked his death” or as a philosopher who taught evil in his writings. “His name would be synonymous with deviousness, cruelty, and willfully destructive rationality; no thinker was ever so demonized or misunderstood than Machiavelli” (1). He has influenced people from his time, for an example Shakespeare and Elizabeth I, and Napoleon. Also people from more present times like Hitler and other people who studied military tactic.
Machiavelli has had great influence as a military thinker. In many ways, he is considered to be the founder of modern military science. His piece The Art of War, it has been said to lay the foundations of modern strategy. His study in The Prince of the rational use ...