Why You Must Acquire Power at All Costs | Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli
An interview with Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli’s philosophical importance
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Reference Text:
Harvey Mansfield, Machiavelli's Effectual Truth https://amzn.to/4oImTb0 (affiliate)
Harvey Mansfield, Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy https://amzn.to/4luj7iA (affiliate)
Harvey Mansfield, Machiavelli's Virtue https://amzn.to/4lscehq (affiliate)
Timestamps:
00:00 0. Introduction
01:45 1. Machiavelli's Chief Enemy: Christianity
13:12 2. Machiavelli's First Enemy: the Classical Tradition
24:24 3. Necessity Over Goodness
57:48 4. Machiavelli's Virtue
1:06:29 5. Machiavelli's Political Revolution
1:17:47 6. The Possibility of Withdrawal
1:24:03 7. Machiavelli's Effectual Truth
1:33:43 8. The Father of Modern Science
1:40:57 9. Machiavelli and Tocqueville
1:45:00 10. Progressivism
1:51:56 11. Is Mansfield a Machiavellian?