Discuss Machiavelli's view on morals and politics in the Prince

Discuss Machiavelli's view on morals and politics in his work The Prince Machiavelli's masterpiece The Prince is one of the most polemical texts on political theory. Since its publication in 1532 there has been widespread debate among political theorists about his political morality. Today the term 'Machiavellian' used in everyday speech and has extremely negative connotations, a person so described is deemed as 'cunning, scheming and unscrupulous'(Fowler:1995). Is this a fair representation of Machiavelli? In …

…of the Republic (De Instituzione Reipublicae) Paris (1585) -<Tab/>The Kingdom and the Education of the King (De Regno et Regis Institutione) (Prato, 1531) Pontano, Giovanni On Fortune (De Fortuna) in Opera Omnia,3 vols (Basle, 1538),vol. 1, pp. 497-584 Seneca, Moral Essays: De Providentia, De Constantia, De Ira, De Clementia translated by John W Basore Viroli, Maurizio Machiavelli and the republican idea of politics in Machiavelli and Republicanism Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1990) Words: 2,507