Lao-tzu vs. Machiavelli

Title: Lao-tzu vs. Machiavelli
Category: Literature / English | Words: 840 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

Lao-tzu vs. Machiavelli

Lao-tzu and Machiavelli are political philosophers writing in two different lands and two different times. Lao-tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher from 6th century BC, the author of Tao-te Ching, and Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher who lived 2000 years after Lao-tzu’s time, author of Prince. They are both philosophers but have totally different perspective on how to be a good leader. On one hand Lao-tzu advises in his book Tao-te Ching, “If you want …showed first 75 words of 840 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 840 total…end? We all know, the answer is no. As long as human lives, the war will never end. Perhaps Lao-tzu and Machiavelli’s political view is totally opposite, at the end they all have a common goal is to create an ideal political system. The constitution among other things would not allow that sort of government today. The times have defiantly changed, but the need for the higher forms of thinking amongst society has not.

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