What Point of View Did Niccolo Machiavelli Take Toward European

question 7

Multiple Choice

What point of view did Niccolo Machiavelli take toward European governments in The Prince ?

• A)He wrote about governments in an idealized way.
• B)He expressed his views on government in terms of the Bible.
• C)He wrote from the perspective of the monarch.
• D)He wrote about the governments as they were in reality.
• E)He wrote about the secular view of an oligarchy.

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Definitions:

Hypothetical Proposition

A compound proposition that uses the connective “if . . . then.”

Disjunctive Proposition

A statement in logic that presents two or more alternatives, where the truth of at least one alternative makes the proposition true.

Contrapositive

A logical statement derived by negating and swapping the hypothesis and conclusion of the original conditional statement. If the original statement is "If P, then Q," the contrapositive is "If not Q, then not P."

Hypothetical Proposition

A proposition or statement that is based on a hypothesis or an assumption rather than on known facts.