More obviously, the adjective " Machiavellian " became a pejorative term describing someone who aims to deceive and manipulate others for personal advantage . " Machiavellianism " also remains a popular term used in speeches and journalism; while in psychology, it denotes a personality type.
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Not that Ackroyd is deaf to the Machiavellianism of More's career . ( It's quite likely that More read Machiavelli and was appalled by him . ) Ackroyd details More's enmeshment in the power structure of London's merchant elite and the country's legal system.
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It was in this context that the massacre came to be seen as a product of Machiavellianism, a view greatly influenced by the Huguenot Innocent Gentillet, who published his " Discours contre Machievel " in 1576, which was printed in ten editions in three languages over the next four years.
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In France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Italy, it was in its initial florescence associated with the administration of Catholic empires of the competing Habsburg dynasties, both seeking to centralize their power in a modern way, responding to Machiavellianism and Protestantism as part of the so-called counter reformation.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 was still ready to endorse a version of this view, describing the massacres as " an entirely political act committed in the name of the immoral principles of Machiavellianism " and blaming " the pagan theories of a certain raison d'�tat according to which the end justified the means ".
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If my experience of playing against brute search WZebra reversi is correct, then they will behave in what seems like chaotic and unpredictable ways and be cold and sinister things with an icy heart, including naturally subscribing to Machiavellianism-cue an SF story . talk ) 10 : 13, 27 March 2010 ( UTC)
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In his study of the character-portrayal of Edmund, Harold Bloom refers to him as " Shakespeare's most original character " . " As Hazlitt pointed out, " writes Bloom, " Edmund does not share in the hypocrisy of Goneril and Regan : his Machiavellianism is absolutely pure, and lacks an Oedipal motive.
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In 2002, the Machiavellianism scale of Christie and Geis was applied by behavioral trust game, those with high MACH-IV scores tended to follow homo economicus'equilibrium strategies while those with low MACH-IV scores tended to deviate from the equilibrium, and instead made choices that reflected widely accepted moral standards and social preferences.
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In fact there is little trace of Machiavelli in French writings before the massacre, and not very much after, until Gentillet's own book, but this concept was seized upon by many contemporaries, and played a crucial part in setting the long-lasting popular concept of Machiavellianism that so infuriates scholars of his actual thought.
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""'Anti-Machiavel " "'is an 18th-century essay by Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and patron of Voltaire, consisting of a chapter-by-chapter rebuttal of " The Prince ", the 16th-century book by Niccol?Machiavelli, and Machiavellianism in general.
