Niccola Machiavelli: knowledge manager of the renaissance
Machiavelli’s work, the collection, formulation and organisation of lessons learned from the Roman Republic – knowledge management that is – has been highly influential in modern history. Il Principe seems to have been the favourite reading of both Napoleon and Stalin.
Machiavelli’s immoral reputation is largely undeserved.
Those who have studied the Discorsi alongside Il Principe know that Machiavelli’s only object of study was the effectiveness of political or military measures. Moral aspects of these measures were not taken into consideration. It is therefore unfair to say that Machiavelli’s work is immoral. Amoral is probably a better adjective.
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