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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Thomas

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More a noteworthy Renaissance humanist with a good head on his shoulders until [scissors cuts Thomas Mores' head]

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he was beheaded for treason yeah.. well check out this passage [mumbling]

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[mumbling]

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[mumbling continues]

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alright you sing it Machiavelli, okay well here's a question from what we know

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about Machiavelli's The Prince it was similar to Thomas More's philosophy

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because it what and your potential answers...

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well fun fact about Machiavelli's The Prince it's one of the [Machiavelli portrait beside Machiavelli]

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most famous examples of a sort of writing from the period called mirrors

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for princes which functioned is a sort of textbook that instructed kings and

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rulers on how to rule and behave that basically means they were one of the [king wearing a crown sitting on a throne]

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earliest forms of a you know self-help book apparently the original title

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making your subjects fear you for dummies never made it to print. More and [making your subjects fear you for dummies book]

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Machiavelli different in many ways one was from England the other from Italy [The Big Ben and the leaning tower of Pisa]

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one was a Christian humanist the other a civic humanist but they did share one

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aspect of their philosophy but what was it well to start it most certainly

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wasn't A, as that idea belonged exclusively to Machiavelli. More

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believed in the power of the collective society so unless collective is somehow [Lots of people gathered together]

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a mistranslation of wets themselves at the mere sight of you and we're not

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buying this one he doesn't work either neither of them supported Reformation. Though [Man walks away from a castle]

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More was a bit more passionate about it remember the whole losing his head

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thing we mentioned yeah that was a direct result of his opposition to the [More's head floating around a castle]

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Protestant Reformation going on at the time maybe More had bought a few too

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many indulgences and was just trying to protect his investment well either way

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this one isn't it either and seeing as most of Machiavelli's work focused on [Machiavelli and More heads on a Michael Angelo painting]

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Roman history while More's focused most predictably on the Bible we can safely

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rule out C as well to really get an idea of what More was like try to

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picture that one musician friend of yours you know the one that only talks [Man talking about music to a girl]

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about music every time you hang out

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like it's great that you just discovered that some obscure band only writes songs

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in the pentatonic scale, but like can we just order dinner now anyway he was like [girl wanting to order dinner and man holding a guitar discussing music]

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that but with the church however they both did highlight societal problems and

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the need for a reform which is why D is the correct answer here granted they

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both proposed two completely different solutions More with a call for the end

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of private property and Machiavelli with a call for a skilled absolute ruler but

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the general idea was the same but is that even really all that similar sure [Two girls deciding to eat pizza for dinner]

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you and your buddy can both agree that it's past 7:00 and time to eat dinner

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but if one of you wants pizza and the other wants sushi you might as well be on [two girls arguing over sushi or pizza for dinner]

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two different planet and don't even think of suggesting pizza with anchovies

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