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is good and anything that Therefore, in the school of
causes a decrease in human powerism, a human being who
power and ability is bad. is known as a perfect human,
Therefore, if an oppressive has power. In other words, the
act increases the power and perfection of man is in his
dignity of the country, that act strength and ability.
is good according to Machiavelli, (Capleston, 1996: 391-393)
or if a just act causes a Nietzsche is one of the
decrease and weakness of influential theorists of the
power, that act will be bad. school of power. It seems that
(Machiavelli, 2019a: 96-97) Nietzsche adopted many of
the opinions of his moral
Machiavelli and The School school from the opinions of
of Power Machiavelli.
This school presumes that for He assumed that Christianity
recognizing moral virtues and suppresses the true character
vices, one should decide which of man and by encouraging
actions strengthen a person’s people to keep qualities such as
power and which ones weaken altruism, compassion, benevolence,
it; the first type are virtues submission and submissiveness
and the second are considered prevents them from flourishing.
vices. Nietzsche is more famous
In this school, perfection is as a moral philosopher. He
equal to ability and imperfection proposed the principle of
is equal to weakness and power in ethics and developed
incapacity, and goodness and the school of powerism in moral
badness are measured by this philosophy, while Machiavelli
criterion.
is more famous as a political
