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 shows, i...

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Main Author:	Wootton, David, 1952- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Conduct of life > History. Power (Social sciences) > History. Values > History. Enlightenment. Ambition > History. Pleasure. Profit.