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Machiavelli's The Prince and Modernity | The New Thinkery Ep. 2

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Machiavelli's Criticism of Christianity

Machiavelli is a great admirer Jesus in trying to accomplish the same things. But I think his critique of Christianity is critique of Jesus as morals, such as it is. He doesn't think you can accomplish Jesus's goals by Jesus's means. And so he really is trying to reorient our thinking profoundly and recalculate our sort of moral calculations.

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