{"id":11221,"date":"2023-03-29T21:16:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/textual-analysis-of-niccolo-machiavellis-the-qualities-of-the-prince-lao-tzus-thoughts-from-the-tao-te-ching-and-jean-jacques-rousseaus\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T21:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:16:30","slug":"textual-analysis-of-niccolo-machiavellis-the-qualities-of-the-prince-lao-tzus-thoughts-from-the-tao-te-ching-and-jean-jacques-rousseaus","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/textual-analysis-of-niccolo-machiavellis-the-qualities-of-the-prince-lao-tzus-thoughts-from-the-tao-te-ching-and-jean-jacques-rousseaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Textual Analysis of Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli\u2019s \u201cThe Qualities of the Prince,\u201d Lao-Tzu\u2019s \u201cThoughts from the Tao-te Ching,\u201d and Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u2019s \u201cThe Origin of Civil Society.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Write an essay analyzing the ideas of Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli\u2019s \u201cThe Qualities of the Prince,\u201d Lao-Tzu\u2019s &nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThoughts from the Tao-te Ching,\u201d and Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u2019s \u201cThe Origin of Civil Society.\u201d Which&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>a<span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit;\">uthor\u2019s ideas do you most agree with and why? What do these authors imply about the obligation&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit;\">of the state to the individual it governs, and about the obligation of the individual to the state? Is &nbsp; &nbsp; one more important than the other? In answering these questions, you will want to also consider the following thoughts: c<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit;\">onsider what each author sees as the ultimate purpose of government, c<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit;\">onsider what each author sees as the main work of the state.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-variant-caps: inherit;\">consider the attitudes each author has toward the essential goodness of people.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write an essay analyzing the ideas of Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli\u2019s \u201cThe Qualities of the Prince,\u201d Lao-Tzu\u2019s &nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThoughts from the Tao-te Ching,\u201d and Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u2019s \u201cThe Origin of Civil Society.\u201d Which&nbsp; author\u2019s ideas do you most agree with and why? What do these authors imply about the obligation&nbsp; of the state to the individual it governs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=11221"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=11221"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=11221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}