From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 06:29:44 BST
Rick's got a cool sig quote:
"We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and
not what they ought to do. - Francis Bacon"
...so, how do you write what men do? There's a lot of men, it would take a
pretty big book, especially if you put in the contexts in which men do their
stuff. You'd have to stick to generalities, right? You'd have to write
what "most men" do. You'd have to write what the mores and morals of the
culture was. Otherwise you'de be writing what men don't do more than what
they do do, but the effect would be for people reading it, to think "oh, so
this is what men do."
Rick do you or does anyone know more of the context around that quote? Is
that Bacon the sciencist, or was that a parent of this one?
We do have a great interest in knowing what men do, but that is why men have
a great interest in appearing moral as well as being moral. Embarrassing or
shameful things we keep to ourselves, we don't need Machiavelli telling
everyone about how we were rude and thoughtless to someone yesterday, if for
some regrettable reason that's what we were.
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