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Jan 13, 2021
Jan 13, 2021
23 min
Another break from current events, to talk about the political philosophy of weapons, something totally unrelated to the present moment. (The written version of this review was first published February 16, 2017. Written versions are available here.)
3 years ago
Jeronimo De Carranza “On the Philosophy of Arms and its Skill, and Christian Offense and Defense” is a good example of arms. You also had the transcendental values of The Gentleman ( see Baldassare Castiglione The Book of the Courtier). Who was always armed. And held to Gentleman standards. You also had a Catholic Sanctioned dueling culture for personal insults. Such a cowardice, infidelity, lying, cheating etc Sometimes a Judicial Duel was enacted for harsher crimes.