A short, CRITICAL History of Philosophy (Chapter 11)
Was Montesquieu The Greatest of the Enlightenment Philosophers?
Niccolò Machiavelli inaugurated a new approach in philosophy. By examining society from the perspective of historical example and not mere conjecture, he had raised the understanding of politics to a higher level than anyone who preceded him. Two hundred years later his methodology was carried forward by a French aristocrat from Bordeaux, the wine regio…
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