The importance of government between both states define their true nature through self-interest and finding their morality. Both philosophers Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes confront the issue of human nature through the Prince and the Sovereign. These philosophers have the power to analyze people and their actions. Although from different times Hobbes idea of human nature was similar to that of Machiavelli’s. The former’s writing of the Leviathan during the civil war impacted his ideas, being
In this paper I will compare the views of realism of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli. For Brown et al. (2002) “(it) is … Machiavelli, who along with Hobbes, helped to generate the tradition of political realism.”[1] In order to compare their views effectively I will first look at the different methods, which they employed, after which I will explain how this difference created the divergent view of human nature. It is this view, which underlies their belief of anarchy, a key realist assumption
in itself is neutral, however when they make no effort to stop the ill patient from taking away their humanity, the witness treats the patient as a means instead of an end. Kant’s work shows that everyone participating in physician assisted suicide does not their moral duty, from the categorical imperative to preserve life to treating everyone with respect and