
Interview: Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli's Mandragola | The New Thinkery Ep. 76
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Michavelli's Effectual Truth
Michavelli himself is a philosopher, let's suppose that he as this principle of politics. But in his lifetime, he knows that he can't accomplish this. So he's going to need help later on, after he dies. And so he has a kind of succession problem, similar to messer nices, just wanting to have a son or a family. Th so he, he, machivili, wants to have a kind of family, yes, that will that will continue his project of modernity and do things differently but s in the same general spirit.
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