Power, Pleasure, and Profit : : Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison / / David Wootton.
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...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t To the Reader -- |t 1. Insatiable Appetites -- |t 2. Power: (Mis)Reading Machiavelli -- |t 3. Happiness: Words and Concepts -- |t 4. Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke -- |t 5. Utility: In Place of Virtue -- |t 6. The State: Checks and Balances -- |t 7. Profit: The Invisible Hand -- |t 8. The Market: Poverty and Famines -- |t 9. Self-Evidence -- |t Appendix A: On Emulation, and on the Canon -- |t Appendix B: Double-Entry Bookkeeping -- |t Appendix C: “Equality” in Machiavelli -- |t Appendix D: The Good Samaritan -- |t Appendix E: Prudence and the Young Man -- |t Appendix F: “ The Market” -- |t Notes -- |t Illustration Credits -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index |
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