What is the most persuasive aspect of Landon’s argument about power? What would you suggest he do to improve his comparison of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke?

By improving they are Machiavelli, who along with Hobbes, helped to generate the tradition of political realism. Hobbes was a scholar, whose aim was to put politics onto a scientific footing; he therefore employed a strict logical approach to his work. In contrast, Machiavelli was a man of action; he worked, primarily, as a civil servant of the Florentine Republic. He drew conclusions, having made observations of how people actually behaved rather than the way they ought to behave in a hypothetical and intangible world.

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