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Dewey had the support of the Filipinos who, like the Cubans, also wanted freedom from Spain. Over the next two months 11,000 Americans join forces with Filipino rebels led by Emilio Aguinaldo.


What is a MOKLO?

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What does the term Machiavellian mean?

To act in a machiavellian way is to act as though the ends justify the means.Which I realize is not terribly precise, so allow me to be more specific. Niccolo Machiavelli was a political philosopher/writer during the renaissance in Italy. He is most famous for his book (very short) which was titled "The Prince" (which just means ruler.) The general theme of the book is that you should not worry about doing what is right or wrong, and instead worry about doing what is effective.For example. Let us say that there is a ruler of a country, and the peasants of this country are rebelling.A moral ruler would try and negotiate with the rebels, to ensure that bloodshed was kept to a minimum; that way everyone would be as happy as possible.A machiavellian ruler would (probably) get his army together, crush the rebellion brutally, and make examples of the leaders.Machiavelli would argue that the second course of action would be much much better. This way, the rebellion is put down quickly, and more to the point, future rebellions are much less likely. If whenever people rebel you give them what they want, they are likely to rebel again. If every time people rebel you kill them horribly, people lose interest in that sort of thing.In short, in this circumstance, Machiavelli would argue that it was better to kill those people (even though killing is an immoral action) because it would be better for the ruler (and arguably for the country as a whole.)I realize this is a fairly long answer, but I hope it is helpful. By the 16th century, as Italy's troubles mounted, this tendency to free politics from any relationship to religion became an important part of the thinking of a number of distinguished Florentine writers, including the best known, Niccolò Machiavelli. Stimulated by the political crisis of his time, Machiavelli sought to base statecraft or the art of governance on science rather than on Christian principles. He focused on how to preserve the state by any effective means. His acceptance of the principle that the end justifies the means, so bluntly expressed in his most famous work, Il principe (1532; The Prince, 1640), reflects the degree to which the new political environment had changed popular thinking.


What does the Machiavellian mean?

To act in a machiavellian way is to act as though the ends justify the means.Which I realize is not terribly precise, so allow me to be more specific. Niccolo Machiavelli was a political philosopher/writer during the renaissance in Italy. He is most famous for his book (very short) which was titled "The Prince" (which just means ruler.) The general theme of the book is that you should not worry about doing what is right or wrong, and instead worry about doing what is effective.For example. Let us say that there is a ruler of a country, and the peasants of this country are rebelling.A moral ruler would try and negotiate with the rebels, to ensure that bloodshed was kept to a minimum; that way everyone would be as happy as possible.A machiavellian ruler would (probably) get his army together, crush the rebellion brutally, and make examples of the leaders.Machiavelli would argue that the second course of action would be much much better. This way, the rebellion is put down quickly, and more to the point, future rebellions are much less likely. If whenever people rebel you give them what they want, they are likely to rebel again. If every time people rebel you kill them horribly, people lose interest in that sort of thing.In short, in this circumstance, Machiavelli would argue that it was better to kill those people (even though killing is an immoral action) because it would be better for the ruler (and arguably for the country as a whole.)I realize this is a fairly long answer, but I hope it is helpful. By the 16th century, as Italy's troubles mounted, this tendency to free politics from any relationship to religion became an important part of the thinking of a number of distinguished Florentine writers, including the best known, Niccolò Machiavelli. Stimulated by the political crisis of his time, Machiavelli sought to base statecraft or the art of governance on science rather than on Christian principles. He focused on how to preserve the state by any effective means. His acceptance of the principle that the end justifies the means, so bluntly expressed in his most famous work, Il principe (1532; The Prince, 1640), reflects the degree to which the new political environment had changed popular thinking.


Was the execution of José Rizal justifiable?

Given his antipathy toward the Spanish colonizers, and his support of the nationalist rebels, it was natural that the Spanish (even the church hierarchy) wanted to get rid of him, and tried to justify it. They might have feared making a martyr of him, but not as much as they feared him in life. Executing a charismatic leader did make things marginally worse for the Spanish, but in 1896 their prospects for keeping the vestiges of their Empire were not good. Two years later, they lost the Philippines to the US in one of the shortest wars in history.

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