1. Analysis on Machiavelli's Discourses
... punishment" (D I.29.66). The uncorrupt republic is ungrateful due to its fear that great men will no longer let it live free. The corrupt republic could very well be ungrateful for the same reason, but because the fear of punishment does not exist in its ... republic's ingratitude merits excuse when it is a defensive mechanism performed out of suspicion in the interest of the common good. A free republic cannot be maintained on the notion of justice that one ought not to harm one's benefactors. This truth cannot operate as justice between men in the republic ... his concepts leave room...
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