Power, pleasure, and profit insatiable appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

Power, pleasure, and profit insatiable appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

"We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning--cost-benefit analysis--to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wootton, David, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Conduct of life > History.
Power (Social sciences) > History.
Values > History.
Enlightenment.
Ambition > History.
Pleasure.
Profit.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Ambition.
Conduct of life.
Power (Social sciences)
Values.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
EBSCO eBooks
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Insatiable appetites
  • Power: (mis)reading Machiavelli
  • Happiness: words and concepts
  • Selfish systems: Hobbes and Locke
  • Utility: in place of virtue
  • The state: checks and balances
  • Profit: the invisible hand
  • The market: poverty and famines
  • Self-evidence.

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