A Close Reading of Machiavelli's Prince Ch. 15 | The New Thinkery Ep. 3
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The Effectual Truth of Aristotle's Udamean Ethics
In chapter 19, Machiavelli says the most important thing is avoiding contempt and hatred. If you can reduce human beings to sort of basic passions, it gets a lot easier to not work politics,. But that might first require persuading them that this is what they are.
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