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Power, Pleasure, and Profit

- Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780674976672
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 400
  • Udgivet:
  • 8. oktober 2018
  • Størrelse:
  • 241x165x30 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 782 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 6. december 2024

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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.

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