The modern anthropology between passion of conflict and conflict of passions
Abstract
At the root of morality and politics there are very often psychological considerations that indicate the focal points that the government of men must take into account to be effective. The purpose of this contribution is to show how the conflict between reason and the passions has identified a passion, the interest, that was functional for this purpose. The promotion of the interest has played the function of not sterilizing human life by reducing it to a series of rational calculations and at the same time of furnishing a useful tool for acting on conduct by heading it in directions favorable to power.
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