Machiavelli was essentially a political philosopher, his fame came mostly from the "Prince", a treatise on policy setting out the principles on which to stand up a modern state, and we'll see how these principles will depart significantly from those mostly designed by his predecessors, so it is an emblematic figure of the Italian Renaissance. Sake of Machiavelli is to study Italian history to find the reasons for a reconstruction of the political unity of the Italians. A political community, to Machiavelli, must find itself in its founding principles, as well as social life. The return to the principles is generally a good rule of all political and social order, and thus religious Machiavelli argued, for example, that was good for the Catholic Franciscan return to the principles of poverty and humility, where and when happened. But Machiavelli is also a practical man, a realist who wants to study history as objectively as possible, in order to express the principles that lead to harmony and social policy, seen as the supreme good in opposition to chaos, the disorder is a harbinger of misfortunes. To comply with this rule, to maintain order and harmony, a ruler (the prince referred to the work) can make use of all means, should not necessarily derive its principles from a higher moral order (as it was mostly during the Middle Ages), how to apply a policy of convenience as needed quotas that will put the facts in front: "In the states, the reduction principles or you do by accident or extrinsic to intrinsic prudence." Therefore the policy should be "autonormativa", ie not derive its justification from principles to her outside, top and transcendent (God and the gods), but the simple convenience of the action: at times, might make it necessary for the sovereign to take firm action and violence, if, for example, a revolt of the court, but always bearing in mind the greater good of unity and harmony in opposition to the state of anarchy, but not exceeding in excess, otherwise the fall in the most gloomy and ferocious authoritarian tyranny.
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