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Socrates Meets Machiavelli: The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Author of the Prince is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume political theory’s foundational thinker has a conversation with the father of philosophy. Peter Kreeft’s reincarnation of the gadfly examines Machiavelli’s virtù, fortuna, and other concepts. The practical power player engages the classical seeker of the ideal in an approachable book on logic, ethics, and politics.

SOCRATES: I see. So virtù does not mean “moral virtue” and fortuna does not mean a “fortune” in money. Virtù means power and being able to exercise power and control, while fortuna means its opposite, being on the receiving end. Is that right? MACHIAVELLI: You understand my terms correctly, Socrates. SOCRATES: And all that is not under our control you call chance or luck? MACHIAVELLI: Yes. SOCRATES: That may be an assumption we will have to question at some time. But for now, I want to know how you
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