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A Close Reading of Machiavelli's Prince Ch. 15 | The New Thinkery Ep. 3

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The Immoral Machiavelli

The common misunderstanding or common misreading of Machiavelli is that we have to learn how to be bad, period. So long as you focus on that, you're actually doing something that's, that's quite immoral. But there's a kind of moralism and a root of that, right? I can really say, I mean, there's a strange way that you can read this where it sounds hyper moral.

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