HoP 350 - The Sentence - Machiavelli on Republicanism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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How to Interpret Machiavelli's Political Discourses
This week's episode focuses on a single sentence from machiavelli. It is part of his discourses on the roman historian livy in 15 14 and 15 18. The author was trying to show that class opposition kept Rome free, as he puts it. But how should we go about understanding this sentence?
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