Question

This thinker argued that Numa Pompilius was more important than Romulus because he used religion to establish social cohesion. This thinker imagined David refusing Saul’s armor and going to fight Goliath with a knife in a parable advising against “auxiliaries.” The “problem of dirty hands” (20[2])is traced (20[1])back to a passage in which this thinker describes the task of learning “not (0[1])to be good.” (20[1])This author of a commentary on (*) Ab urbe condita (10[2])called (10[1]0[1])for (10[1])his country (10[1])to unify (10[1])in the final chapter (10[2])of a treatise that compares fortune to a raging river. (10[3])Unlike his Discourses (10[1])on Livy, (10[1])this (10[1])thinker’s (10[2])magnum (10[3])opus (10[2])advises (10[1])studying the lion and the fox (10[1])and notes that it’s “safer to be feared (10[2])than loved.” (10[3]0[1])For (10[1])10 points, name this Italian author of (10[1])The Prince. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Niccolò Machiavelli
<Veer Bhatt, RMP - Philosophy&gt; ~25044~ &lt;Editor: Jordan Brownstein>
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