RHS 117

D.C.Ellison, Instructor

Assignment on Machiavelli & His Successors

Three Web Sites are brought to your attention in order to complete this assignment.

Nicolo Machiavelli - http://www.the-prince-by-machiavelli.com

Thomas Hobbes - http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/leviathan

Jeremy Bentham - http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/b/bentham.htm

The essential questions for you to answer are as follows:

1. What are the common assumptions and elements binding Machiavelli, Hobbes and Bentham together?

2. In what sense of the word are all three highly moral?

3. What makes each of these men "modern?" (i.e., representative of dynamic rather than static cultures)

Estimated length of paper, c 1500 words 3 pages 12 point type) or thereabouts. You are free of course to vary this.