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Power, Pleasure, and Profit

Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

Wootton, David

Power, Pleasure, and Profit

Power, Pleasure, and Profit

Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

Power, Pleasure, and Profit

 

"We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning--cost-benefit analysis--to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable.


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Beschrijving Power, Pleasure, and Profit

David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore.


ISBN
9780674976672
Pagina's
400
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Harvard University Press

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