The Prince. On the Art of War

The most well-known work of the writer became the treatise The Prince, originally published in Russia under the titles The Prince and The Ruler. Machiavelli created a doctrine about a consistently secular state, free from church morality. He believed that in the struggle for the strengthening of the state, any means are permissible: violence, deception, betrayal. The term machiavellianism, which later appeared, came to denote a policy that disregards the laws of morality. However, today many of the author's propositions are perceived as self-evident, having found their embodiment in the history of the 20th century. The book also includes the brilliant treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli "On the Art of War," which astonished contemporaries with its rigid and practical approach not only to military tactics but also to strategy.