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Posted by the count of monte cristo on March 01, 19101 at 17:02:17:
In Reply to: machiavelli's cynicism posted by yariv on February 27, 19101 at 22:56:19:
: help me out here people, do you agree with machiavelli's cynical approach to mankind.....give examples...AS MANY AS YOU CAN PLEASE!!!! I have a paper do on this tomorrow and i cant concentrate!!!
I don't think machiavelli was necessarily cynical yariv. To be cynical usually entails a sort of mistrust of human nature. Machiavelli seems to have trusted greatly in human nature, in the weakness of it that is.
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