Showing posts with label Renaissance philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renaissance philosophy. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Some thoughts on Thomas More’s “Utopia”

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Note: By writing the work “Utopia,” Thomas More created a new literary genre: utopian and dystopian fiction. This genre is still popular tod...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

A review of “Astronomy: The Heavenly Challenge” (audiobook)

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The battle over the Sun-centered universe was as much political as it was scientific. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , a th...
Monday, November 1, 2021

A review of Étienne de la Boétie’s “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” (audiobook)

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Étienne de la Boétie When “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” was first published in 1577, its author had been dead for more than a decade. ...
Monday, May 3, 2021

A review of Machiavelli’s “The Prince” (audiobook)

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I had read “The Prince” itself before listening to this audiobook, sometime during the winter of 2006-2007. It was in English translation ...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Actually, Machiavelli WAS pro-dictatorship (and Rousseau was wrong about him)

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“I admit that, provided the subjects remained always in submission, the prince's interest would indeed be that it should be powerful, ...

Machiavelli argued that Cesare Borgia was a good ruler. (Was he?)

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“ I shall never hesitate to cite Cesare Borgia and his actions . This duke entered the Romagna with auxiliaries, taking there only French...