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Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 17:48:05 No.21855805 [Reply] [Original]

Why did you make me waste my time with The Prince instead of reading this one?

>>	Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 17:59:14 No.21855832 >>21855805 Because this is only important if you're concerned with Livy.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 18:08:50 No.21855871 >>21855832 I'm concerned with good books.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 18:48:35 No.21856027 >>21855805 i think the prince is one of the best books ever written. how is the livy one better?

>>	Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 18:52:24 No.21856044 >>21855805 You're not "wasting your time" - you can read the whole of The Prince in a day if you really wanted to. It's a very short book.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 18:53:55 No.21856051 File: 88 KB, 866x677, 1596526597628.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21856044 >a day is not time

>>	Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 18:54:42 No.21856055 >>21855805 But why read this and not just read livy?

Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 19:01:40 No.21856078

>>21856027
most scholars say that it is more substantial than the prince which they consider as a summary of his political thought. machievelli himself stated that the prince was meant to be as an appetizer so it wouldnt put people off for being 900 pages

>>	Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 20:07:42 No.21856370 >>21856055 Because they talk about entirely different things. Machiavelli doesn't just copy Livy, he expresses his own thought modelled after Livy's work. It's like asking why read Plotinus instead of just reading Plato.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Mar 31, 2023 20:35:49 No.21856511 >>21856055 Machiavelli drew out the implicit conclusions in Livy's recount of Roman history

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 1, 2023 01:23:55 No.21857701 File: 177 KB, 1353x2020, rules-for-dictators.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >b-but you made me lol trolled besides picrel is better and it comes with a video introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 1, 2023 03:44:46 No.21858063 So there's no way to read it before or without reading Livy's work?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 1, 2023 04:25:05 No.21858182 >>21858063 >This nigga hasn't read livy lmaaoo

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 1, 2023 08:43:29 No.21858721 >>21857701 Holy reddit

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 1, 2023 08:47:13 No.21858728 >>21855805 >waste my time with The Prince You didn't read it.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 1, 2023 08:49:14 No.21858731 >>21858728 Sad projection

>>	Anonymous Sat, Apr 1, 2023 08:54:27 No.21858746 >>21858731 Maybe you did, but it didn't tell you how to be le bad reddit guy and now you're upset.

>>	Consuelo Yang Sat, Apr 1, 2023 09:42:41 No.21858844 >>21858746 More embarrassing projection<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

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