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>>10952707
Absolutely excellent post.

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So i was rereading my man Machiavelli, specifically 'Discourses on Livy', and he brings up the idea that a certain amount of societal instability is healthy for a republic. His example is the friction between the Patricians/Senate and the Plebs/Tribunate, which allowed the Republic to transform itself several times and prevent societal decay (which is one of the main themes of the work). So i was wondering if there is any other Political Philosophers which discuss instability in society as a positive force; i find a lot of the enlightenment thinkers are too meliorist for my taste.

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>>10274988
Machiavelli, classic post-modernist.

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Aside from The Prince.

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