Machiavelli_And_Arendt

Machiavelli And Arendt Machiavelli and Arendt “Totalitarian policy claims to transform the human species into an active unfailing carrier of a law to which human beings otherwise only passively and reluctantly be subjected.” A statement in Hannah Arendt’s Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government, in this essay she outlines and defines totalitarianism. Her explanation includes many variables that can be misrepresented as those ideals set forth by Niccolo Machiavelli in his 1513 working The Qualities of the Prince. According to Arendt totalitarianism is made of several qualities. She describes an end state of “world domination” accomplished by tyranny. In this lawless government, a single individual will have power that is provoked in his own interest rather than that of the people. Under this action, there will be no “general agreement” as to laws that will be implied, rather, there will obedience and humans will follow the “laws of nature”. Hence, totalitarianism is a movement by mankind to become “One man” states Arendt. Thus, this statement alone is not congruent with Machiavelli’s idealistic values of a prince. Within his work, Machiavelli outlines and defines those qualities and assumptions that a leader, a prince, must possess in order to succeed or for that matter, machiavelli, arendt’s, totalitarianism, prince, people, movement, while, state, rather, must, arendt, welfare, totalitarian, terror, states, qualities, government, cruelty, values, statement, sacrifice, person, own, outlines, order, one, mercy, matter, man, machiavelli’s, little, leader, laws, keeping, individual, human