How Good People Lose Power | Machiavelli's The Prince

Machiavelli's The Prince is a book with a sordid and scandalous history. Banned for hundreds of years and thought to corrupt the minds of everyone that read it, it contains the insights of Niccolo Machiavelli on how to gain and retain power. And today we will see what lessons it has, and how it has been misinterpreted throughout the years.

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00:00 The Prince
01:18 The Fall of Idealism
05:34 The Necessity of Power
08:28 The Kindness of Cruelty
12:11 The Danger of Complacency
14:45 The Importance of Being Adaptable

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