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020			_a9780674989887 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aBJ1595 _b.P694 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aWootton, David, _d1952- _e1
245	1	0	_aPower, pleasure, and profit : _binsatiable appetites from Machiavelli to Madison / _cDavid Wootton.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource (386 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning--cost-benefit analysis--to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older normative systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives. Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought--from Machiavelli to Madison--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 in the work of writers both obscure and as famous as Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith. The new instrumental reasoning was a double-edged weapon. It cut through old codes of status and rank, enabling the emergence of movements for liberty and equality. But it also helped to create a world in which virtue, honor, shame, and guilt count for almost nothing, and what matters is success.-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aInsatiable appetites -- _tPower: (mis)reading Machiavelli -- _tHappiness: words and concepts -- _tSelfish systems: Hobbes and Locke -- _tUtility: in place of virtue -- _tThe state: checks and balances -- _tProfit: the invisible hand -- _tThe market: poverty and famines -- _tSelf-evidence.
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650		0	_aConduct of life _xHistory.
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences) _xHistory.
650		0	_aValues _xHistory.
650		0	_aEnlightenment.
650		0	_aAmbition _xHistory.
650		0	_aPleasure.
650		0	_aProfit.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1893477&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell