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Machiavelli

Power

Politics, power, strategy and human nature in conflict.

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Oscar Wilde

Wit

Reputation, spectacle and the hypocrisy behind appearances.

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Epictetus

Stoicism

What lies in our control, and what doesn't — and how to live with it.

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Adam Smith

Markets

Markets, incentives, exchange and human cooperation.

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Karl Marx

Society

Class, capital, labor and the forces shaping society.

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Nietzsche

Values

Values, morality, meaning, culture and the will to power.

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Freud

Psyche

Desire, fear, repression and the motives beneath behavior.

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Montesquieu

Institutions

How power is divided, checked, and quietly concentrated again.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Observation

What the evidence actually shows, measured and tested against nature.

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Beccaria

Justice

Punishment, proportion and the limits of what the state may inflict.

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