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Maverick Jann M. For individuals and so with the states, autonomy matters most. Thus, it is the fox and the forefathers. The fox and the forefathers should not be taken literally. They are just models to represent manhood. Fox is a complex figure. It is also a figure for grounding.

Fox also understand the situation and understand the spirit of the thing. It is not categorically bad and it is not categorically good. The Forefather is thus, just the opposite of the fox. Needless to say, Machiavelli was a public servant under the city of Florence. This political experience was beneficial in his writings.

Within the succeeding years of his life, he became an underling, effective speaker, and secretary to those who have higher positions. However, despite of being successful in his career he was not given honor for he was just representing something else.

However, when the Medici regains their power, Machiavelli was removed from his 1 Ibid. After this, he became a theorist which he created a play titled Mandragola.

It is also a model of manliness. The story goes this way: It is a bawdy comedy, whose young hero, Callimaco, has lost his heart to the beautiful Lucretia. Unfortunately, she is already married to a foolish and aged lawyer,Nicia.

The marriage is childless, and Nicia desperately wants a son and heir. Ligurio convinces him that his wife will conceive if she drinks a potion of mandrake root, but that the first man to sleep with her after she drinks it will surely die. So Nicia is tricked into letting Callimaco sleep with Lucretia after she drinks the potion. The plot is successful, Lucretia falls in love with Callimaco, and the lovers agree to continue their illicit relationship, and to marry after old Nicia dies.

This fox shows that it can be better than his master. The fox fight for his survival by simply using fraud. Also quoted in Pitkin,Fortune is a Woman, However, this image is not necessary to Machiavelli; he only uses this image for preliminary purposes. Machiavelli, not necessarily, promotes this fraud or deception for force alone is not enough yet, intelligence is more important power for the fox.

The fox knows when to act, dissemble or disguise. Cesare Borgia is a good example of this. The fox is essential; only in this sense of conflict. Just like what Brutus did; he pretends to be foolish in his appearance to his rivals so that he could win and turn Roman kings into Roman republic. However, these two images; the fox and the forefathers are not the best solution in corrupt nation, but rather it is only by law.

A law here means not corrupted and natural. Translate PDF. Maverick Jann M. A dilemma is thus posing. But it is inevitable that in working amidst differences and plurality of perspective there will surely be clashes and 1 Ibid.

Nevertheless, the depiction of the Citizen is not telling us to disregard and throw those conflicts away. We are rather challenged to accept also the conflicts, for only in conflicts can one make better of himself. Moreover, there is an invitation for us not to be purists which pulls the weeds among the wheat because we might also hurt the wheat2 based on the Gospel parable of the sower.

It thus reminds us to be open and gently accepts plurality and polarity but not just be a passive receiver rather to work amidst these conflicts and clashes of views. Luis David, SJ. Related Papers is philippine politics machiavellian? Download File.