Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison Wootton David

Harvard University Press 2018 Harvard University Press 400 Wootton, David Hardback

Power, Pleasure, and Profit - David Wootton David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore. z kate...