Machiavelli vs Aristotle
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Since pre-school we've been taught to do onto others as you would like them to do to you. Clearly Niccolo Machiavelli missed that lesson! He does however realize how important it is to be a good leader; however he does feel that it's necessary to sometimes risk the love of the people in order to achieve greater success. According to Aristotle power and happiness lies in virtue whereas Machiavelli believes that power and happiness lies in not necessarily being virtuous but at least appearing to be. Ultimately, power has nothing to do with happiness for Aristotle; unfortunately power has everything to do with happiness for Machiavelli, where in lies the dramatic difference between the two men.
Machiavelli wrote a guide about how to attain political power by whatever means necessary, so you can obviously conclude that the man doesn't have many morals. He's all about getting to the top no matter what it takes. It's not so much that Machiavelli disagrees with Aristotle's views but that in some sense considers them to be naive. Aristotle would want his political leader to be charitable no matter what the costs, however this could possibly leave him broke to uphold his status. Machiavelli's idea of a perfect leader is a frugal leader...