Oracolo manuale e arte di prudenza

Înainte de orice, o observație etimologică. „Eudemonologie” vine de la termenul grec εὐδαιμονία care înseamnă fericire, viață împlinită. Editorii postumi ai acestei scrieri (îndeosebi Franco Volpi) au verificat 13 caiete din arhiva filosofului și au găsit însemnări pentru un proiect care n-a fost dus Leggi tutto

Shocking! Ok, I dunno why this one is so shocking but it is. It gave me a pause and a lot of starts: most of this stuff is what we see across lots of self-help lit of the modern kind. All these ideas have been packaged and repackaged and resold as some sort of new wisdom even though people could hav Leggi tutto

"Use human means as if there were no divine ones and use divine means as if there were no human ones."

I'm a little surprised by some ratings of this book. I understand that this isn't a book that you exactly "critique" because it's a renown oracle from the 17th century. However, I took the wisdom in this book less as HOW to be and more as HOW to watch out for people like this. I'll agree that it's a Leggi tutto

De departe cea mai veche carte pe care o dețin (publicată în 1912, în traducerea lui Titu Maiorescu), aceasta reprezintă o colecție de eseuri ale marelui filosof, sistematizate într-un volum unic. La sfârșitul sec. al XIX-lea, intelectualii români erau prea puțini cunoscători de limbă germană, iar T Leggi tutto

I have friends who read The Prince like a bible, and its true that Machiavelli is worthy of repeated study, both as a period piece and window into the Renaissance Italian soul, and as possibly the most notorious treatise on Realpolitik ever written. Machiavelli, like Nietzsche, has been misused by t Leggi tutto