19 | Machiavelli: Cunning, Fortune, and Republican Virtue
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is There a Partisan Standpoint?
If history ispose to inform our politics, well then we need actual be clear in our politics. That will help us understand the ples that we're choosing from. But when you a depoliticise history and make it seem as if what we're trying to do is simply just understand history,. well you're going to get a bunch of nonsense. It turns out history syo sufficiently contradictory enough that you can naturally make a case for any story you want to tell. There is a way to tell an deeply anti race story of the united states. You could do it from real historical examples. And so what machiavellio, it seems he's doing is, you can't
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