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Rediscovering Machiavelli English
by John Blain
Read, October 2005
A new translation of the aphorisms of Baltasar Gracian. Wit and humanities.
The English Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658) is mainly its fame to its Oracle and manual art of prudence. This little book - translated into French from the seventeenth century by Amelot de la Houssaie under the title The courtier - has inspired many of his maxims La Rochefoucauld and Schopenhauer believed that this "little masterpiece" was " made to play the role of a real life companion. " Gracian y collects three hundred aphorisms most of his moral thought and policy. Some of them evoke Machiavelli when we, for example, invited to "seize the opportunity" to "know how to use his enemies," because "all things must learn to take, not by their blade that cuts, but by their handles, which advocates "or to" put the fox's skin, when you can take the lion's skin. " But if the advice of Machiavelli addressed to the prince, Gracian apply to those who aspire to succeed in this world of appearances is society. But this analyst disillusioned with the social comedy, the real success is not without a self-fulfillment, as "man [...] point is not born entirely; he improved every day tending to the person in his position until the point of being consumed at the peak of his qualities, his virtues . This moral perfectionism prefigures Nietzsche.
Gracian is above all a master of the Baroque literature English Golden Age. And one of the great merits of the proposed new translations by Benito PelegrÃn is to make all their richness and subtlety to voluntarily oracular texts and an extremely brief intended to prohibit access to the vulgar, while the former French translators had tendency to bend the language of classicism Gracian requirements. The principles that governed this language are described in Baroque Art and figures of the mind where Gracian makes the laws of style and art of speaking well. This search for the "acuity" of the figure or joke that should concern is not pure rhetoric or aesthetics. She also performs - like the other tests that make up this collection - an ethical project, and revenue of poetic 'wit' themselves are, through a reflection on language, meditation on human destiny.
Rediscovering Machiavelli English
by John Blain
Read, October 2005
A new translation of the aphorisms of Baltasar Gracian. Wit and humanities.
The English Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658) is mainly its fame to its Oracle and manual art of prudence. This little book - translated into French from the seventeenth century by Amelot de la Houssaie under the title The courtier - has inspired many of his maxims La Rochefoucauld and Schopenhauer believed that this "little masterpiece" was " made to play the role of a real life companion. " Gracian y collects three hundred aphorisms most of his moral thought and policy. Some of them evoke Machiavelli when we, for example, invited to "seize the opportunity" to "know how to use his enemies," because "all things must learn to take, not by their blade that cuts, but by their handles, which advocates "or to" put the fox's skin, when you can take the lion's skin. " But if the advice of Machiavelli addressed to the prince, Gracian apply to those who aspire to succeed in this world of appearances is society. But this analyst disillusioned with the social comedy, the real success is not without a self-fulfillment, as "man [...] point is not born entirely; he improved every day tending to the person in his position until the point of being consumed at the peak of his qualities, his virtues . This moral perfectionism prefigures Nietzsche.
Gracian is above all a master of the Baroque literature English Golden Age. And one of the great merits of the proposed new translations by Benito PelegrÃn is to make all their richness and subtlety to voluntarily oracular texts and an extremely brief intended to prohibit access to the vulgar, while the former French translators had tendency to bend the language of classicism Gracian requirements. The principles that governed this language are described in Baroque Art and figures of the mind where Gracian makes the laws of style and art of speaking well. This search for the "acuity" of the figure or joke that should concern is not pure rhetoric or aesthetics. She also performs - like the other tests that make up this collection - an ethical project, and revenue of poetic 'wit' themselves are, through a reflection on language, meditation on human destiny.
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