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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.

MACHIAVELLI: Socrates—or whoever you are—you amaze me: you claim I am naïve because I claim that men are wicked, and you claim that you are not naïve because you claim that men are good! This is to turn common sense upside down. SOCRATES: I do not say that men are only good, but you say that men are only wicked. I take account of evil, but you do not take account of good. That is why I say you are naïve and simplistic and untrue to the complexity of the facts. You
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