Cyan comments on [Link] Machiavelli in historical context - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Cyan 31 July 2012 07:41PM

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Comment author: Cyan 01 August 2012 05:47:57PM *  0 points [-]

the author talked about Machiavelli founding utilitarianism/consequentialism at the beginning, but never really came back to it

The post I linked is the first of three; the second and third posts are still to be written.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 01 August 2012 09:07:02PM 0 points [-]

I was only surprised because the author did come back to political science and pinpoint it in time. You restored a symmetry which the author broke. Either you are correcting an oversight or you disagree with her. In neither case are the future posts relevant.