Power, Pleasure, and Profit

David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore.

David Wootton ne ghideaza prin patru secole de gandire occidentala pentru a arata cum ideile noi despre politica, etica si economie au patruns intr-un decalaj deschis de conflictul religios si Revolutia stiintifica. Pe masura ce ideile despre evlavie si virtute aristotelica au disparut, teoriile despre cautarea rationala a puterii, placerii si profitului s-au mutat in prim plan.