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  Are fraud, deception, lying, and dissimulation not only permissible for the stability and security of the state – but necessary – precisely because scrupulosity in (private, personal) morals is…

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  In taking his bearings from men “as they are, and not from how they 𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒,” Machiavelli – like Hobbes and other modern political philosophers who followed him…

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  I know it is an extremely, perhaps recklessly broad generalization – and, moreover, once pointed out, it seems so obvious that it deserves no special notice – but Christianity…

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