Socrates Meets Machiavelli: The Father of Philosophy Cross-Examines the Author of the Prince (Biblia.com)

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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: So the end of categories is knowledge, and the end of knowledge is power? MACHIAVELLI: Exactly. When we know the basic categories in any field, we are able to summarize a vast variety of phenomena under a single formula; and this, in turn, enables us to predict and thus control these phenomena. And that is what makes for a practical science. SOCRATES: Excellently said, Niccolò. You are a very intelligent man, and your understanding of the nature of a practical science was far ahead of most

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