Essay help, about Tao Te Ching and The Prince 2 pages

  

Write a 2-3 page response to the readings, comparing and contrasting their views. You may want to address one of the following questions or select another topic with the professor’s prior approval. Can The Prince be applied to personal social relationships? Can the Tao-te Ching serve as a guide to political issues? What should be the purpose of government? Use 2 quotations from each work!2 pages required Please finish and revise my essay, i already wrote 1 page thankyou
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Compare to Tao Te Ching and The Prince, it is really easy to tell the differences in the
aspects of how to be a good leader in Eastern culture and Western culture. The Prince, which
written by Niccolo Machiavelli, is mainly talk about how a good prince should be Strong and
smart, how a prince should have two personalities, one should be very positive and aggressive
while facing people and enemy, the other one should be deceitful and decidedly while making
judgements for the country. In Niccolo’s opinion, the only way of being a good leader is being
aggressive and make the country strong. It is just opposite of what Lao-Tzu’s opinion is to be a
good leader, a good man. In Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu’s thoughts are more likely to be teaching
people to be kind, and “Tao” was formed, the central idea of Tao is that it is something in
people’s daily life, it’s more like rules that people should follow to be good. In the principles of
“Tao”, power and fame represent the desires in people, tile and power are not important, but
in The prince, Power is everything, a good prince should know how to get more power and keep
the power he has at present time, a lot different.
In The Prince, Weapon is what’s necessary to have to keep peace, “War is just when it is
necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.” (The Prince 4) which is
saying that the war sometime is bot avoidable, so prepare of fighting is always wise. But in Tao
Te Ching, it more like to convince people not to fight and give up the desire in people.
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