Personal History
for a brief look at my Great Grandfather . . .
Above: Mom as a teen-age beauty
Mom visits Butchart Gardens in Victoria.
On gender
The author is distinguished professor of political science and director of the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Debating Sex and Gender (2010). She lives in California.
Survey material
Philosophy
Many traditions in philosophy have aimed at helping individuals think more deeply and rigorously about the good life. Notre Dame and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are partnering with universities across the world to imagine new and higher impact ways to teach these traditions. The Mellon Philosophy as a Way of Life Network is a team of over one hundred philosophy faculty from diverse institutions who research aspects of philosophy as a way of life, share curricula, train one another on key teaching strategies, and support each other as we find new ways to serve our students and the humanities more broadly.
On Nietzsche
What does “Machiavellian” mean?
The word Machiavellian has come to invariably refer to an “unscrupulous schemer for whom the ends justify the means,” notes the animated TED-Ed video above, a description of characters “we love to hate” in fiction past and present. The adjective has even become enshrined in psychological literature as one third of the “dark triad” that also features narcissism and psychopathy, personalities often mistaken for the Machiavellian type.
The term’s “lasting notoriety comes from a brief political essay known as The Prince,” written by Renaissance Italian writer and diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli and “framed as advice to current and future monarchs.” The Prince and its author have acquired such a fearsome reputation that they seem to stand alone, like the work of the Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who likewise lent their names to the psychology of power. But Machiavelli’s book is part of “an entire tradition of works known as ‘mirrors for princes’ going back to antiquity.”
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New Discovery in grammar!
Chomsky grammar 1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The “pseudessive mood” has been unearthed through research in Mideastern paleolinguistics! Click on “mood” below to access the report.
