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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wootton, David, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Morale pratique > Histoire.
Siècle des Lumières.
Ambition > Histoire.
Plaisir.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Ambition
Conduct of life
Enlightenment
Pleasure
Power (Social sciences)
Profit
Values
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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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