Assignment Question
The final product needs to be an essay of about 1200 words, double spaced, 12 point font in microsoft word. IMPORTANT: “The paper must be your attempt to construe the texts assigned for the class. Given that, you must provide frequent citations to the assigned texts (3 to 5 in-text references per page is normal).” and “You should not turn in a paper that references encyclopedia articles or any scholarly publications that do the work for you. This paper is about you explaining what you think the author means, not restating someone else’s interpretation. You have to show you read the work.”
The prompt chosen Prompt Number 3 with the source being Chaapter 15 of Machiavelli’s The Prince.:
Prompt III, Machiavelli on Virtue Machiavelli begins Chapter Fifteen of The Prince by claiming to introduce a different way of speaking about how a prince should rule his own people. He says that: “…many authors have constructed imaginary republics and principalities that have never existed in practice and never could, for the gap between how people actually behave and how they ought to behave is so great that anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover he has been taught to destroy himself.” What does Machiavelli mean by “virtue” in The Prince?
