Power, pleasure, and profit (Record no. 8064)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780674976672 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 170.903WOO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wotton, David. |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Power, pleasure, and profit |
| Remainder of title | insatiable appetites from Machiavelli to Madison |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 386p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Conduct of life -- History; Power (Social sciences) -- History; Values -- History; Enlightenment; Ambition -- History; Pleasure; Profit; |
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| UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma | UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma | Philosophy | 01/17/2025 | 170.903WOO | URD000596 | 01/31/2025 | 01/17/2025 | Book |