PHIL 1091 Study Guide - Final Guide: Empiricism, Materialism
15 May 2014
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O response: clemency, liberality, magnamity, prudence, etc. can be destructive to the ultimate goal of acquiring power and maintaining it: denied the importance of moral virtue for political success, the fox/lion/centaur metaphors, lion for strength. Fox for cunningness: centaur you should appear as a human but have the drive of beast behind you, doing whatever necessary to succeed, the role of fortuna in machiavelli"s thought. If you try to stop the force of fortune"s wheel, you are the most foolish man alive. If it should stop turning, it would cease to be fortune"s wheel . Fate cant be outran: lady fortuna must be dominated (like a man) 4 stages cycle of fortune"s wheel: regnabo: i will reign, regno: i reign, regnavi: i reigned, sine regno sum: i am without a kingdom c. Matter is the only substance of reality (body, extension and motion). The rest are secondary qualities. : empiricism: theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.
