POLITICAL SCIENCE

POLITICAL SCIENCE INDEX

• It consist of "The Medici Family"
• "Machiavelli"
• "Sir Thomas More"

THE MEDICI FAMILY

Founder
Giovanni's son Cosimo is considered to be the original founder of the family's political fortune.

The plague.
Ferdinand distinguished himself as ruler and established the academy of experiment as an effort to hold off the plague.

Down fall
Florentina and Tuscan economy had slowly been stagnating in the end of the 16th century. Arrangements were eventually made in 1737 and Austrian troops occupied Tuscany.

SIR THOMAS MORE

More is an excellent example of the early English Renaissance. He was friends with such humanists as Erasmus, John Colet, Thomas Linacre and others.

Renaisance thinkers were mainly concerned with four ancient schools -- Aristotelianism, Platonism, Stoicism and Epicureanism. The alliance between Platonism and Christianity was as old as Saint Augustine, but had been revived in the Renaissance by Marsilio Ficino.

In contrast to the Platonic Republic, More's society is a communistic democracy and not an aristocracy with communism confined to the ruling elite. The new emphasis on the philosophy of pleasure comes from More's understanding of Epicureanism.

MACHIAVELLI

POLITICAL CAREER

• Secretary of first chancery
• Leads Florence militia
• Overthrown by the medici

THE PRINCE

• Political writing said to based on prince borgia
• Distinguished how leaders should rule
• Do anything to maintain power
• Punish citizens accordingly
• Deceit is acceptable

SOURCES

• http://galileo.rice.edu/gal/medici.html
• http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/more.html
• Www.egs.edu/library/niccolo-machiavelli/biography/