Source: Persuasion
by Luke Hallam
“It’s an occupational hazard of being a philosopher that you may one day end up being associated with ideas that are the precise opposite of what you actually argued — or which, at the very least, ignore the most important aspects of your worldview. Friedrich Nietzsche is doomed to be associated with a kind of moody adolescent nihilism he would certainly have rejected. Albert Camus is constantly lumped together with his frenemies, the French existentialists. Persuasion’s own Francis Fukuyama is still battling the false charge that he claimed there would be no more historical events after 1989. To this pantheon of the misunderstood we can add Niccolo Machiavelli.” (03/03/25)
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