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The Arthashastra

In Our Time: Philosophy

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A Manual for Kingship

This is amanual for kingship. It shows how a ruler should govern his kingdom and what the structure of government should be. The text says you should only really have four advisers, which is kind of the idea being that if you've got two, they can sort of split their view,. while also maintaining state secrecy. But i think it's worth dwelling on the kind of fault line in this text, which is that, on the one hand, it is absolutely concerned with virtue and the duties of the king.

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