The 20th-century political philosopher Leo Strauss called Machiavelli “a teacher of evil.” Based on your reading of Machiavelli’s Discourses, do you agree with this judgment? Why or why not?

Instructions are uploaded (titled POG 235- paper 2)
only required to use class readings as a source but i also wanted to refer to either the source i attached below (evil teachings w/o remorse) or other scholarly/peer-reviewed sources that highlight why machiavelli was referred to as a “teacher of evil” and why i oppose.

This must be used as a resource
Niccolò Machiavelli The Discourses on Livy –
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10827/pg10827-images.html
Book 1: Preface, Ch. 1-6, 9-12, 16-18, 55, 58

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