Machiavellianism  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Revision as of 07:44, 2 October 2018; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Jump to: navigation, search
Niccolò Machiavelli (Detail of 1500 portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito)
Enlarge
Niccolò Machiavelli (Detail of 1500 portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito)

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

power-hungry, megalomania, despotism

Machiavellian is an auctorial descriptive derived from the name of the Italian statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.

  1. Attempting to achieve their goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods.
    Iago is the Machiavellian antagonist in William Shakespeare's play, Othello.
  2. Related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli.
    • 2006, Mark Vernon, Philosophy and Life,
      It is Machiavellian, in the sense that it revolves around the question of how to maintain power.




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Machiavellianism" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools