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               important than moral issues.           determinism  and  asserts  that
               (Machiavelli, 2019a: 68-69)            the condition of moral actions

                                                      is  that  they  are  performed
            Evaluation  of  Machiavelli's             voluntarily.
            Viewpoint  Based  on  the                    So  only  the  attributes  that

            Anthropological Foundations               have  come  into  being  with
            of Ayatollah Misbah                       human  free  will  can  be
            In  this  section,  the  summary          qualified  as  moral  and  can
            of  Machiavelli's  view  on  the          change with this free will and

            criteria  of  moral  action  is           with  great  effort.  Otherwise,
            reviewed  and  then  it  is               ethics and the efforts of social

            evaluated      from     Ayatollah         reformers  and  educational
            Misbah Yazdi's viewpoint.                 philosophers will be meaningless
            1. Machiavelli considered man             and useless.
            as a one-dimensional being.                  As a result, Allameh Misbah

               Allameh Misbah, contrary to            does not accept Machiavelli's
            Machiavelli's  view,  considers           claim  that  a  man  cannot
            man having two physical and               change      due      to    natural

            spiritual dimensions. (Misbah             determinism  (the  impossibility
            Yazdi, 2012: 39)
                                                      of  changing  the  original

            2. Machiavelli considered man             nature)  and  the  difficulty  of
            inherently  evil  and  bad  and           changes in external traits and
            described  him  as  subject  to           states. (Ibid, 2011: 49)
            natural determinism. Machiavelli             Allameh  believes  that  due

            believed that man is naturally            to  the  divine nature that God
            ambitious and tends to evil.              has  bestowed  the  human

               Allameh  Misbah  rejects               being,  he  tends  to  do  good
            Machiavelli's  view  of  natural          deeds  more  than  bad  deeds;
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