Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison by David Wootton

Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

David Wootton with Charles Constant (Narrator)

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nonfiction history philosophy informative slow-paced
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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, i...

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