The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli | Audiobook with Text

🌟📖 Welcome to Chillbooks, where we bring classic works of philosophy and political thought to life in a serene and focused setting. Today, we present “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli, translated by W.K. Marriott and read by Bob Neufeld. This audiobook features full on-screen subtitles, offering an immersive and engaging experience with one of the most influential political treatises ever written.

🔖 About “The Prince”
Originally published in 1532, “The Prince” is Machiavelli’s groundbreaking work on political power, strategy, and leadership. Addressing themes of statecraft, governance, and realpolitik, Machiavelli advises rulers on how to acquire and maintain power, often challenging traditional moral norms. His insights into human nature and pragmatic governance have made “The Prince” a lasting and controversial work that continues to influence political thinking today.

🌟 About Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was an Italian diplomat, historian, and philosopher, known as one of the founders of modern political science. His works, especially “The Prince”, have made an indelible impact on both politics and philosophy, contributing to discussions on ethics, power, and governance. His name has become synonymous with cunning political strategy, though his writings offer a much deeper, nuanced analysis of leadership and statecraft.

🎙️ Narrated by Bob Neufeld
This audiobook is narrated by Bob Neufeld, whose engaging voice brings Machiavelli’s insights to life, capturing the tone and intensity of this influential work.

🌄 Subtitled Audiobook for Immersive Engagement
This audiobook comes with full on-screen subtitles, allowing you to follow along as you listen to Neufeld’s narration. The visuals are designed to create a calm and reflective environment, ideal for deep engagement with Machiavelli’s ideas on leadership and power.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
00:11 - Dedication
03:06 - Chapter 1
04:02 - Chapter 2
05:45 - Chapter 3
24:43 - Chapter 4
30:48 - Chapter 5
33:47 - Chapter 6
41:51 - Chapter 7
58:30 - Chapter 8
1:08:36 - Chapter 9
1:16:52 - Chapter 10
1:21:22 - Chapter 11
1:27:09 - Chapter 12
1:37:56 - Chapter 13
1:46:10 - Chapter 14
1:51:47 - Chapter 15
1:55:17 - Chapter 16
2:00:37 - Chapter 17
2:07:37 - Chapter 18
2:14:08 - Chapter 19
2:37:22 - Chapter 20
2:47:25 - Chapter 21
2:55:51 - Chapter 22
2:58:50 - Chapter 23
3:03:23 - Chapter 24
3:06:45 - Chapter 25
3:14:21 - Chapter 26
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Happy weekend! This is an optimized edition of The Prince. We made an edition ~3 years ago, but the background music was louder than the narration, and it didn’t have on-screen captions.
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[tonypaus]

Great content. For a non native English speaker like me, audiobooks of older books are way harder to keep up. The text makes it way better.

[betsyshea]

3 things to know before you read:

Theme: A good leader is loved and feared. IN the end people need to know the leader is POWERFUL

The book was written because of the nation states, the author wanted all of these states to be one country and to bring italy together.

All of the family names are just people who have power, so dont worry about trying to keep everyone straight all of the time

[Alchemoooo]

25:25
i'll comeback tomorrow
thanks!

[norwardradtke]

Here to learn about my narcissist mothers tactics lol

[samiibrahim]

What sense does it make to start with Oct 7th when the problem started back when Benjamin Disraeli, then the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, facilitated the British government's purchase of a 44% stake in the Suez Canal Company from the Egyptian Khedive Isma'il Pasha in 1875. To finance this acquisition, Disraeli arranged a loan of £4 million (approximately £500 million today when adjusted for inflation) from Lionel de Rothschild, a prominent member of the Rothschild banking family.

The British bombarded Alexandria and subsequently occupied Egypt, including the Suez Canal area, in 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War. This strained the relationship between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire, contributing to the Ottoman Empire siding with Germany during WWI because it perceived the occupation of Egypt as an occupation of the Ottoman territory.

To add to the problem the British occupied the newly discovered Iranian oil fields which was another developing issue between the Ottomans and the British who wanted oil for their new war ships.

To overthrow the Ottoman Empire the British turned to the Arab people, The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence occurred between July 14, 1915, and March 30, 1916. It was a series of letters exchanged between Sir Henry McMahon, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, and Sharif Hussein bin Ali, the Emir of Mecca. The correspondence was initiated during World War I as part of British efforts to secure Arab support against the Ottoman Empire, which had aligned itself with Germany and Austria-Hungary. It promised among other things a free and independent country for Palestinians.

The correspondence was later a source of significant controversy because it appeared to conflict with the Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), a secret agreement between Britain and France to divide Ottoman territories in the Middle East into spheres of influence, and the Balfour Declaration (1917), which expressed British support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

So, the stage was set for the ongoing Palestine Israel conflict by a British Empire that had come under the control of people like Bejamin Disraeli and "Lord Rothchild" the Balfour Declaration was issued on November 2, 1917, and General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on December 11, 1917, just over five weeks later.

With Palestine now occupied by the British, and the formal establishment of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1920, under the auspices of the League of Nations, was pivotal. The mandate incorporated the Balfour Declaration, committing Britain to support the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. This legal framework significantly facilitated Jewish immigration; the Zionists started the invasion of the now British occupied Palestine.

The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine of 1947. The plan proposed by the UN General Assembly in Resolution 181 called for the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into two separate states: one Jewish and one Palestinian, with Jerusalem under international administration.

This two peaceful nations side by side never occurred because you cannot just invade someone's homeland and demand half of it for yourself and expect the people to be just bow down to your desire for an ethno-state, instead the Nakba took place 700, 000+ Palestinians were displaced, and 500+ Palestinian towns and villages were wiped off the map by Zionists, the number of dead was hidden and denied but was in the millions followed by 75+ years of occupation where Palestinians are denied the basic human rights by their brutal, sadistic occupiers, every Palestinian remaining in Palestine is treated as a prisoner of war including infants. When the Palestinians resist, they are labeled as terrorists and the focus of the Hasbara (הסברה) propaganda program is to always keep the focus on terrorism to keep the Americans from focusing on the real problem which is occupation and violations of human rights.

[ma]

When niceness is frowned upon.... you know how shit the world is. Please don't make excuses for evil shits to be more evil.