How does Machiavelli support his claim that rulers can be cruel if it benefits their subjects and is necessary for security? Machiavelli uses anecdotal evidence through historical examples to support his claim.
Machiavelli uses empirical evidence about politics and society to support his claim.
Machiavelli uses logical evidence through historical examples to support his claim.
Machiavelli uses empirical and logical evidence to support his claim.

Read the passage from chapter 8 of The Prince.

Agathocles, the Sicilian, became King of Syracuse not only from a private but from a low and abject position. This man, the son of a potter, through all the changes in his fortunes always led an infamous life.

Nevertheless, he accompanied his infamies with so much ability of mind and body that, having devoted himself to the military profession, he rose through its ranks to be Praetor of Syracuse.

Being established in that position, and having deliberately resolved to make himself prince and to seize by violence, without obligation to others, that which had been conceded to him by assent, he came to an understanding for this purpose with Amilcar, the Carthaginian, who, with his army, was fighting in Sicily.

One morning he assembled the people and the senate of Syracuse, as if he had to discuss with them things relating to the Republic, and at a given signal the soldiers killed all the senators and the richest of the people; these dead, he seized and held the princedom of that city without any civil commotion. . . .

How does Machiavelli support his claim that rulers can be cruel if it benefits their subjects and is necessary for security?

Machiavelli uses anecdotal evidence through historical examples to support his claim.

Machiavelli uses empirical evidence about politics and society to support his claim.

Machiavelli uses logical evidence through historical examples to support his claim.

Machiavelli uses empirical and logical evidence to support his claim.

Machiavelli uses logical evidence through historical examples to support his claim.

Explanation:

Machiavelli supports his claim that rulers can be cruel if it benefits their subjects and is necessary for security by using logical evidence through historical examples to support his claim.

Machiavelli made use of logic through historical examples to support his claim by the use of inference and premise to support his claim that rulers can be cruel if it benefits their subjects and is necessary for security.

He made use of Agathocles, King of Syracuse to make his point.

*Logic is the systematic study of valid rules of inference

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)