"'They rammed you through your education. You were supposed to learn what civilization is about, but there wasn't really time, they get so damned few cadets with promise these days. So here you are, nineteen years old, loaded to the hatches with technical information and condemned to make for yourself every philosophical mistake recorded in history. I'd like you to read some books I pack around in micro. Ancient stuff mostly, a smidgin of Aristotle, Macchiaveli, Jefferson, Clausewitz, Jouvenel, Michaelis.'"
- Poul Anderson, Young Flandry (New York, 2010), p. 50.
-copied from here.
OK. Let's google these political philosophers:
Aristotle
Macchiaveli
Jefferson
Clausewitz
Jouvenel
Michaelis (or is this one fictional?)
There is one more surprise before we finish reading Ensign Flandry, Chapter Five.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I too have read at least a "smidgin" of all of these writers except the possibly fictional Michaelis. And at the end of Chapter XXI of OPERATION CHAOS a longer list of philosophers can be found. I think it's safe to assume Abrams read many of these writers as well.
Sean
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