Renaissance humanism has shifted pragmatically in Machiavelli’s treatise The Prince. This first political scientist is often cited as essential reading for leaders up through the 21st century. Machiavelli is very shocking when compared to treatises on leadership from the Middle Ages. Why are his ideas so controversial? What does he say makes a good leader and how is this connected to the humanist philosophy that we have been studying? Please read chapter 17 of the Prince found here (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/machiavelli-prince.asp#CHAPTER%20XVII) and any other one chapter of your choosing.
