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Welcome

Intro post! Welcome to my research blog! I'm the researcher, and maybe you could be one too? Idk why you're here if you're not.

Things I'll post on here:

research ideas

my own thoughts and ramblings based on research I've done

research topics with resources (depending on whether I've done that topic before)

maybe some research aesthetic stuff?

general research-themed stuff!

To be honest, this blog is also so that I continue my various projects and can document my ideas and progress. I hope this might help/be fun to see for some people!

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Dumbledore and Machiavelli??

IM RESEARCHJNG MACHIAVELLI RN AND I CANT STOP DRAWING LINES BETWEEN HIS PHILOSIPHIES AND DUMBLEDORE

“immoral actions are ok in political situations” DUMBLEDORE???

“a good leader needs virtù; not the moral goodness virtue but a flexibility in order to go between good and evil for the greater good” DUMBLEY???

the main differences i see are machiavelli was mostly honest about it. like, bro went “yeah morals are iffy in politics” and yeah. but dumbledore was just like “i am Good! i am Light!”

rip machiavelli you would’ve had such a love hate relationship with dumbledore

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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)

Brief overview: Italian politician/philosopher guy, fun if you wanna get into morally grey stuff, and also quite well known.

Some resources if you wanna research:

What "Machiavellian" Really Means - TED-Ed video; really good intro to who he is, why he's well known and disliked, etc. I'm a VERY big fan of TED-Ed :)

Niccolò Machiavelli - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; VERY VERY DETAILED, one very big paper, has an extensive bibliography so you can find even more sources through that

My thoughts: This was an interesting guy to research. I learned about him a while ago, and honestly he might be one of the reasons I've started this blog. I'm certainly not an expert but as someone who likes to research random things (ik, the most autistic thing you've heard today), I found him interesting. He's a guy who at first glance seems wrong, and then you look deeper and you realize he's right, and then you look even DEEPER and realize he's wrong...ish? Honestly I got whiplash with this guy. Any of my friends can attest to that - I constantly sent texts like, "Is this guy fr?" and "wait he might be onto something" and "nvm yall wth is going on". On my other blog I posted about the similarities between Dumbledore and Machiavelli which I will reblog onto this after I post this. You can see how researching a stereotypical dark academia guy while being in many fandoms and interacting with fandom stuff on a daily basis leads to many curious conclusions.

Overall review of experience: 10/10, resparked my researching spree