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Part 4 Further Analysis Part four, further analysis and discussion.

Everybody's favourite part of the show.

That should be the jingle, official jingle.

It is everyone's favorite part of the show where we've always give our fair

treatments to the text and then it's our opportunity to do some analysis and rip it to shreds.

I will not be ripping to shreds. The Little Book of Philosophy. Oli, you have a copy in front

of you. Do you want to tell us a little bit about it? What's on the cover whose names at the bottom? So this is the Little Book of Philosophy by Rachel Poulton. And this little book of philosophy is absolutely awesome. I would say, Jack, and I mean this sincerely, I've read a lot of introduction to philosophy books, as I'm sure our listeners has, and I'm sure you have. But honestly, this is like, I think it's like two pages. This just, what is philosophy intro, has like the most concise definition and

inclusive one I think I've ever read. Because so many of them are like really wordy, like

nonsense. And some of them just get it wrong. All of our guests have a different version of it.

But that one, that's the one I

put my money on, that's for sure. So next time we interview someone and they give their answer,

you just be like, you're wrong? It's actually in this book. Or if you interview me, I'll just

read it out. I absolutely loved it. I noted that it was quite small, so I put a timer on. It

took me exactly, precisely 90 minutes to read it. It is the perfect stocking filler.

But Jack is a lifetime of thinking about it. Can I get a hallelujah?

Hallelujah. It's really, really good. I'll give you more information just before we play Pop Pop Pop Philosophy Quiz. But it is absolutely fantastic. There's a link in the iTunes description as well as on our website. It's from Somersdale, The Little Book of Philosophy. It even has a little chapter on Machiavelli. So if you've forgotten what's been going on the last few episodes, don't listen back. Order yourself, the Little Book of Philosophy. And then listen back, because obviously we want you to listen to it. I don't think you could pack in so much knowledge from such a short book. It is jam-packed and definitely worth picking up a copy. And it's at $6.99. Tell me something better you can get for $6.99. I can't. Well, that's good. Maybe like two Frappuccinos, but you'd probably feel quite full after the first one. It's half a Frappuccino. And that might do you. No, pick it up. Little Book of Philosophy, links in the iTunes description. So I guess we want to do some analysis, first of all, don't we? We've got quite a few things we want to move through. Andrew, you see looking at me with quote eyes. No, not quote eyes, but I thought, I know we said we wanted to talk briefly about the discourses on Livy. But before we do, I thought it would be nice just to say maybe what books or things that we read on Machiavelli. Just because we, I think we usually do that in the first episode. Sure. Nothing says sexy analysis like a list of resources. Go on after you. Well, no, I just thought like, because this is one of those ones where I've just dipped my, I toes into a lot of different books. So some of the things that I've read just. Well, I can, what I'll do for the listener as Andrews finding this is there'll all be links on the website as well. But give us the big ones you'd recommend if someone read the Prince and they wanted to go and read something extra on top of it.

Yeah, so the chapter in Alan Ryan's book on politics is a really good introduction to Machiavelli

because it obviously does his life in the context of Florence.

It has a whole section on

Cheseraa Borgia. He talks about the prince and the discourses. And because it's only a chapter and one

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