If we want to understand the ‘meaning’ of The Prince, we should start with Machiavelli himself.A statue of Niccolo Machiavelli in Florence, Italy. Credit: Goran Bogicevic / Alamy Stock Photo Few texts loom so large over concepts of leadership as Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. Though characterised by its author as nothing more than an opusculo (a ‘little book’), it…

“Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World” by Roger Crowley  Detail of “Figure of the Five Islands Where Grow the Cloves, and of Their Tree”, Antonio Pigafetta (via Princeton Library) Although it is the Silk Road that captures most of the contemporary attention and discussion, it was in fact spices, not silk, that drove…

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Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will “I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”Antonio Gramsci in a Letter from Prison (December 1929) Antonio Gramsci  “You must realize that I am far from feeling beaten…it seems to me that… a man out to be deeply convinced that the source of…

Originally published: Dialectical Systems  on August 8, 2023 by Rasmus S. Haukedal (more by Dialectical Systems)  |  (Posted Mar 05, 2024) Environment, Ideology, Marxism, PhilosophyGlobalNewswire Should one claim that, unless they have studied the Science of Logic, these scientists don’t know what they are doing? Doubtless, they know what they are doing but, philosophically speaking, they often do not know what they know…