Power, Pleasure, and Profit - Insatiable Appetites From Machiavelli to Madison

Informationen zum Autor David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. His books include The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution; Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates ; and Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment . Klappentext David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore. Zusammenfassung David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics! ethics! and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded! theories about the rational pursuit of power! pleasure! and profit moved to the fore.

Product details

• Authors: David Wootton, Wootton David
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780674976672
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97667-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Popular economics, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ancient History, Political science and theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Economic theory and philosophy