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Jiang's central controversial argument is that Aristotle was not primarily a philosopher, thinker, or writer but a censor, synthesizer, editor, or systemizer who chose what was politically convenient.
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Jiang presents Machiavelli not simply as an amoral strategist but as a democratic Florentine who wrote The Prince to raise political awareness in a republic.
Jiang's central controversial argument is that Aristotle was not primarily a philosopher, thinker, or writer but a censor, synthesizer, editor, or systemizer who chose what was politically convenient.
"All right? You also have Niccolo Machiavelli, who we still read today. His most famous work is called The Prince. And The Prince is..."
"My argument is that Aristotle was not a philosopher. He was not a thinker. He was not a writer. What he was ultimately is..."
The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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