So, this is the second episode and it takes one central part of Machiavellis thought and turns it into a different perspective on not politics but life. There will be much more to talk about regarding Machiavelli at some point, for sure. But this is why Machiavelli comes tomy mind frequently, even when I am not thinking about politics. I am not sure that’s what he had in mind, but it seems really helpful to me. Hope you enjoy!
Links and Literature
Niccolo Machiavelli 2009 (1515): The Prince. Milton Keynes: Penguin Classics. https://apeiron.iulm.it/retrieve/handle/10808/4129/46589/Machiavelli%2C%20The%20Prince.pdf
Cary Nedermann 2023: Niccolò Machiavelli. in:The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2025 Edition). Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), forthcoming. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2025/entries/machiavelli/
Ulrike Höppner 2010: Thinking in Turbulent Times: On the Relevance of Sixteenth-Century Political Thought. In: European Political Science 9, 291-303. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/eps.2010.29 This is behind a paywall unfortunately. If you would like a copy, feel free to contact me, for example on Bluesky @andnowwhat.bsky.social
Photo Source
Lorenzo Bartolini, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niccolo_Machiavelli_uffizi.jpg