
A Close Reading of Machiavelli's Prince Ch. 15 | The New Thinkery Ep. 3
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Machuvelli's Political Philosophy
When you reduce all human beings to one or two passions, politics can become scientific. It's akin in modern science to what atoms do, right? Atoms are a basic stuff, the same everywhere. And now that you have that, everything is built like Legos. I think the same can be said occurs in Machuvelli and even more strikingly in Hobbes's political philosophy.
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