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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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- To the Reader
- 1. Insatiable Appetites
- 2. Power: (Mis)Reading Machiavelli
- 3. Happiness: Words and Concepts
- 4. Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke
- 5. Utility: In Place of Virtue
- 6. The State: Checks and Balances
- 7. Profit: The Invisible Hand
- 8. The Market: Poverty and Famines
- 9. Self-Evidence
- Appendix A: On Emulation, and on the Canon
- Appendix B: Double-Entry Bookkeeping
- Appendix C: “Equality” in Machiavelli
- Appendix D: The Good Samaritan
- Appendix E: Prudence and the Young Man
- Appendix F: “ The Market”
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index