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History of Ideas: Hobbes on the State
TALKING POLITICS
Machiavelli's the Prince
Machiavelli's The Prince is about understanding politics in its own terms. Many of those lessons speak to politicians now as though they were written yesterday. It's better to be feared than to be loved Sounds like a precept from the 21st century, as well as the early 16th century. But I don't think you can start the history of modern ideas with that book because it's not a modern book.
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