Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Machiavelli

  • Morality Public and Private: On not Confusing Them

    With a little help from Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hannah Arendt. Substack latest. By the way, I learned that Arendt had ten books by Carl Schmitt in her library. We will have to look into their relationship. Is that a cigarette holder she's using?  A Randian touch. It would not be fair to call Ayn Rand…

  • Machiavelli on the Pleasure of Study

    Although he was decidedly of the world and not merely in it, Machiavelli knew how to retreat from its brutality into the serene precincts of the life of the mind and lose himself there, for a time, in conversations with the ancients. I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off…