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Morality is the single most controversial and mind-boggling train of thought currently known to forgiving- descriptor, and no particular single(a) more so exemplifies this conflict (or better summarizes my own personal beliefs) than Niccol Machiavelli. few writers in the whole of the tender-hearted history have inspired the kind of personal hatred that Machiavelli has in the last 500 years, and few works have been as vilified, (or as popular) as The Prince. Machiavelli has been slandered and portrayed as a defender of tyrannical government, an atheistic promoter of im honourableity, and a manipulator whose interests were on the whole self-serving. Today, the Oxford dictionary still characterizes Machiavellian as of, like, or characterized by the semipolitical principles and methods of expediency, craftiness, and duplicity preen forth in Machiavellis book, The Prince crafty, deceitful, and so on. Folk fiction holds that Old Nick, a slang term for the Devil, is derived from Mac hiavellis first name, Niccol. With that context unploughed in mind, isnt morality founded on a specific set of core stems? Isnt it always defined by the acknowledgement of a central moral allegiance dominating all the others? From individualism to families, from tribalism to racism, from subject fieldism to religious fundamentalism or the allegiance to a totalitarian party what we opine is the drawing of different circles centered on a basic, paramount moral norm. And Machiavelli is definitely not isolated in positing the interest of the nation as the foundation of his moral thinking. At the beginning of the 21st century we ar still living within that same ideal nationalist realism. What could be more Machiavellian than the saying My nation right or maltreat, which seems to be a still very popul... ...day? How can we maintain that, in an era when, from migrations to terrorism to the Tsunami to Chernobyl to aviary flu to AIDS, we are obliged to hump with challenges that are global, group ethics (be it tribal, religious or nationalistic) matches our reality, our needs, our stage of human development? We are definitely not on the eve of a global state, and yet we are no longer able to enfold our economic, political, cultural but also moral scope within the limits of the borders of our national republic.There is no easy solution to our moral quandrums (another much discussed idea in the Discourses. Machiavellis daring, his awareness of unadorned reality, his honesty and anti-hypocrisy, his republican fealty can help us, if we are able to grasp the essence of his government activity and his ethics, also in this very complex and problematic stage of human development.