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Interview: Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli's Mandragola | The New Thinkery Ep. 76

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Machivelinism Does Shock People

Machivelinism does shock people. It's meant to come at you and attack the principles you hold dear or cherish, even if you yourself don't always live up to them. And this is shown o the behaviour of lucretia in the mandrada. She's a pious woman who believes in chastity. That is, she stay would never have secks with anyone not her husband em. In fact, tus being merciful makes forces you to be cruel,. If necessity arrives inann and and tells you that you can't follow the nature of mercy. According to nature. Not it is not according to nature, butwat according to necessity. I tell you to follow

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