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he never forgets his father's 2. Human Changeability
property. or Immutability
Most of the critics of Machiavelli does not accept
Machiavelli's books believe that ethics may change the
that according to him, the destiny, though some of his
social position and the law critics assert that he did so
make a person overcome his indirectly. (Machiavelli, 2011: 16)
selfishness and desire, but the Machiavelli discusses the
social position cannot suppress immutability of human morals
the selfishness of a person; So in his “The Prince” book; he
politicians should benefit from narrates the story of two
this bad human trait commanders, one of whom
(ambition) to increase their was bad and the other good,
power, and they can use any but both of them reached the
means to get the power. same degree of success. The
(Madadpour, 2010, Vol. 1: story concludes that the success
45-46) of commanders goes back to
He believes that when a their internal states, which are
person does a good deed, he always constant, and that
is necessarily either forced or changes are the external states
in need, and if his freedom of humans. (Machiavelli, 2019a)
and need are satisfied, he He believes that every human
immediately makes the world being has an unchangeable
chaotic and full of unrest, so nature and the moral traits
there should be a law for him. derived from his nature are
unchangeable because deviation
from nature is not possible
(natural determinism).
