In his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, philosopher Daniel Dennett popularised the idea that evolution by natural selection was a "universal acid". The idea of evolution, he argued, ate its way through everything, destroying our familiar notions and convictions, leaving all transformed in its wake.
The Prince does something similar – with humanism, Christianity, political practice, traditional virtues, even mirror-for-princes books. But nowhere is the book's perspective more corrosive than in its view of human nature.
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