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The Life and Times of Machiavelli with Alexander Lee

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Machiavelli's Lucretian Approach to Fortune

One of the difficulties as well is that in calling machiavelli a lucretian, by sort of proxy, your understanding him as sympathetic to epicureanism as well. So there would be a lot, as you know, lucretius was an epicurean, so ththere would be a lots going on there if you were to consider him that way. And lucretian politics is sort of a scary idea, especially with regards titder derome natura. But more of that later. I'm sore.

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