Republics are not eternal
It is Plato who affirms it, as Jean Bodin relates it, in his IVth book of the Republic: Republics die, like all things. Republics suffer change by nature. So that …
It is Plato who affirms it, as Jean Bodin relates it, in his IVth book of the Republic: Republics die, like all things. Republics suffer change by nature. So that …
The characters of Voltaire’s philosophical tale use the word“Ingenious” in the sense of someone who“always says naively what he thinks”. In this tale, the one called the ingenue is a …
Machiavelli has a simple yet complex method for avoiding revolutions. Simple, because it can be obtained in two ways. Complex, because it is still necessary to be able to implement …
In 1531, Machiavelli in his Discourses on the first decade of Titus Livius I, and II, compares Rome and Sparta. For Machiavelli, Rome won between the two because it showed …
A short history of gardens, to understand what the expression secret garden means. → General Knowledge: the Secret Genesis, of course, begins the importance of the garden. It is a …
How to study the history of philosophy? Whereas recently, this study is done by seeing continuities, development, course, historians of philosophy have not always been so assiduous in giving an …