Korhan asked:

I'm looking for some knowledge about a man Macywelii or Mac Gawelli or something like that...who is
that man and did he say something about:

"To reach our target everything is permissible."

Please I need your help about that...I need the name of that guy or to whom that idea belongs.

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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was an Italian political philosopher and political functionary
(secretary to the war council of the Florentine Republic, for example) who wrote a book called The
Prince, which certainly advances ideas like the one you quote. His views are (as one might expect)
somewhat more complex than that quote might indicate.

Tim Sprod

The famous claim that the end justifies the means was coined by Niccolo Machiavelli in his greatest
work The Prince.It was written in 1513 and published after Machiavelli's death in 1532. The Princeis
considered one of the most influential works of Renaissance Philosophy.

Machiavelli (1469—1527), the Italian statesman and political theorist turned political thought in a new
direction.

While traditional political theorists were concerned with moral evaluation of the state in terms of
fulfilling its function of promoting the common good and preserving justice, Machiavelli was more
interested in empirically investigating how the state could most effectively use its power to maintain
law and order (political science). The claim that the end justifies the means seems to advocate the
use of even immoral means to acquire and maintain political power. What Machiavelli seems to mean
by this is, that sometimes in order to maintain law and order it is necessary for a ruler to do things
that, considered in themselves, are not right, but which, considered in their wider context, are right
because necessary to prevent greater evil.

Simone Klein