Leo Strauss's Thoughts on this thinker were discussed in a work by Harvey Mansfield, who argued thatthis man sought to overthrow Christianity.
Leo Strauss's Thoughts on this thinker were discussed in a work by Harvey Mansfield, who argued thatthis man sought to overthrow Christianity. This man used a poetic quote beginning "Virtue shall take uparms against savagery" to inspire his countrymen, at the end a book that uses the metaphors of a damminga river and beating a woman to describe mastering Fortune. Frederick II of Prussia wrote a tract against thisman, who often discussed a type of skillful manliness called virtu. This man condemned mercenaries andencouraged those with a choice to pick being feared over being loved. For 10 points, name this author ofDiscourses on Livy, the Florentine who wrote a realist tract about rule called The Prince.
Leo Strauss's Thoughts on this thinker were discussed in a work by Harvey Mansfield, who argued thatthis man sought to overthrow Christianity.
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