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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by embracing philosophies They thought we

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were going in for the handshake We thought it was

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going to be a hug and got awkward We don't

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want to talk about it All right Take a little

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following passage right there Returning the question being loved or

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feared And i think that depends Mom Someone brings it

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alone his own way He said it was a hundred

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hatred thing at machiavelli Okay here's our question based on

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the quote above machiavelli would be most likely to embrace

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which type of philosophy And here are potential answers Larky

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million isn't it Well it's better to be feared than

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loved Yeah Machiavelli may have said it first but it's

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since been adopted as the official motto of the confederation

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of sinister substitute teachers of america Their unofficial motto is

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where dungeons really such a bad idea But what type

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of philosophy does this slightly terrifying outlook really speak Tio

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Well it's most definitely not collectivism Afterall machiavelli is talking

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about how a prince should instill fear in his subjects

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which doesn't exactly jive with the whole let's all work

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Together towards common goals like sesame street thing that collectivism

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has going on Unless of course the collective goal of

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the group is to live in continual fear of your

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leader In which case might we suggest some more productive

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common goals like feeding the poor breaking the world record

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for biggest human pyramid or doing both at the same

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time All right well while we put together a team

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of shmoop er's to achieve that totally reasonable goal check

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out answer see machiavelli doesn't speak about religion at all

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in his passage so the secularist idea of separating church

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and state isn't particularly relevant So if there is one

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person you might want to speak with about instilling fear

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in his subjects it'd be god The guy managed to

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turn the phrase god fearing into a positive one pretty

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stellar self branding If you ask us going to go

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there and it's for that exact reason that be christian

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humanism doesn't quite work either This philosophy focuses on the

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humanity of jesus and suggest that human freedom individuality and

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conscience our principal components of christian doctrine So that leaves

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us with a machiavelli's bit about being feared embraced civic

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humanism a philosophy that became popular in his stomping grounds

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of italy During his time civic humanism had all the

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components of humanism and emphasis on freedom of conscience individuality

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and so on But it politicized it That is the

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civic part really spoke to the idea of the individual

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is being active in politics And for machiavelli this meant

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telling all his prince buddies that it was better to

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be feared because by not relying so much on their

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subjects they could be more productive Leaders were inclined to

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believe he spouted that whole it's okay to be scary

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bit because he was a substitute teacher in his spare

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time here so be nice to yourselves We hear dungeons 00:02:47.793 --> [endTime] are coming back and vote there

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