1Neal_Anderson
Hello, I'm very new to this and wanted to see if people here would be interested in created a platform here to discuss political philosophy and theory. I'm currently reading The Prince by Machiavelli but if anyone has any decent recommendations then please feel free to share it here.
3thcson
>1 Neal_Anderson: See my book reviews - lots of political philosophy and theory there.
4eschator83
I think I've read the Prince 3-4 times over the years, almost as much as Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Red Badge of Courage. But I'm not sure what you might by thinking of. Republic, American Papers, Greek? Or Utopia. No thanks on Marx and Hegel.
5paradoxosalpha
My recent reads have included The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena, which has some philosophy of cultural and social politics--not so much institutional politics. One that did address institutional politics and theory of government was Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory. I've added my reviews of both to LT.
It's been a long while since I've read Machiavelli. I wrote an undergraduate political science paper in which I proposed that The Prince and The Federalist Papers were actuated by the same motives in vastly different circumstances--a thesis the instructor found offensive. I'm very keen to read Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli at some point.
It's been a long while since I've read Machiavelli. I wrote an undergraduate political science paper in which I proposed that The Prince and The Federalist Papers were actuated by the same motives in vastly different circumstances--a thesis the instructor found offensive. I'm very keen to read Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli at some point.
6LesMiserables
>1 Neal_Anderson:
I recommend to anyone who is about to embark on an exploration of political philosophy, would do well to inoculate themselves from the attraction of some ideologies that may theoretically appear reasonable, but are entirely devoid of reason.
How can one do this?
I did it the hard way, by grounding myself in natural law after my head had been turned by ideology.
Read Aristotle and Aquinas before you read Locke, Marx, Rousseau, Machiavelli, Mill, Betham, Nozick, Hayek, Kant, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Nietzsche, Burke, Rawls etc.
I recommend to anyone who is about to embark on an exploration of political philosophy, would do well to inoculate themselves from the attraction of some ideologies that may theoretically appear reasonable, but are entirely devoid of reason.
How can one do this?
I did it the hard way, by grounding myself in natural law after my head had been turned by ideology.
Read Aristotle and Aquinas before you read Locke, Marx, Rousseau, Machiavelli, Mill, Betham, Nozick, Hayek, Kant, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Nietzsche, Burke, Rawls etc.
