Power, pleasure, and profit: insatiable appetites from machiavelli to madison
Auteur :
Wootton, David
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674976672
Date de publication :
8 oct. 2018
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 3,0 cm
Poids :
771 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.