| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Machiavelli's three basic tenets remain the foundation of the realist political philosophy: (1) The course of history is determined by cause and effect???not by the ???imagination??? of Utopians; (2) It is practice which creates theory, not vice versa; (3) Ethics are a function of politics, not vice versa; morality is the product of power.???[239]
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