1. Analysis on Machiavelli's Discourses
... eyes: (1) exist freely in a perpetual state of being, and (2) be able and willing to acquire great amounts (D I.29.66). He goes on to explain that in the process of maintaining a free republic, leaders are always faced with the risk of offending citizens it should be rewarding and ... 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 for it ... his concepts ...
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