Machiavellianism

I should start off with this fun fact — I’m young. I’m 21. This might cause you to discount the things I write, and relegate my thoughts as delayed teenage angst. …

Have you got the impression that a co-worker is just concerned about themselves, not the business or their peers to an extreme degree so that they have a serious negative impact on you and others? If so, you may be working with a narcissist, Machiavellian, or psychopath — or with…

Original post: Niccolò Machiavelli: Good or Bad? (sameerkhadka.com) Niccolò Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He served as Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman after the fall of Medici in 1494 until their return in 1512. He was then accused of conspiracy against Medici, imprisoned, and put…

“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.” In 1486, Niccolo Machiavelli’s father got him a job at Subaico printing press. The Subiaco Press was a printing press located in Subiaco, Italy. The Press was established in 1464 by the German monks Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim in…

Isn’t it just the perfect version of gaslighting? Without extraordinary manipulative and persuasion skills, Jim Jones would’ve never convinced a hundred people to sacrifice themselves in the name of revolution. …

At first glance, Vladimir Putin seems like a simple man. He’s a former KGB operative who speaks his mind and says what he means — and nothing more. His intentions and desires were always clear to the people around him. However, the closer you look at Putin and his policies…

A little bit of backstory Lately I’ve been reading a lot about the problem with being too much of nice guy. According to philosophical YouTubers and self help gurus out there, nice guys often finish last because they are actively putting others need in front of theirs, leaving them unable to muster any courage to…

Part of a Series on the Philosophy of History — Today is the 553rd anniversary of the birth of Niccolò Machiavelli (03 May 1469–21 June 1527), who was born on this date in 1469. The remit of political philosophy and philosophy of history overlap significantly, as both as concerned with the action of human agents in time, thus Machiavelli, as…