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Date: 7 Jun 2025 01:06:32 GMT
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On 06 Jun 2025 18:35:26 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> Le 04-06-2025, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> a écrit :
>> On 04/06/2025 07:13, vallor wrote:
>>> Do you think Machiavelli was writing a manual?
>>> 
>> I've met people who think he was.
> 
> I don't know how many book he wrote, but the two I read were manuals.
> They were intended as manuals about war and politic. They were bad
> manuals, but manuals anyway.

Machiavelli was more cynical than Plato but Republic and Laws have some 
suggestions that might not go over well today. First, we need a 
foundational lie, er, mythology. Then we need a hierarchical structure 
because, Gods know, the dummies need herding.

iirc Laws was written as a manual for Dionysius III (?) but he ignored it.