tbf, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Sun Tzu also emphasized the power of discipline - up to and including executions to provide examples. By the same line, the Romans, with whom divide et impera (‘divide and rule’) is associated, were radical in that they regarded the Res Publica as for the good of all people under its power, not just the privileged elite or just the citizens, or even just the members of the polity’s preferred ethnicities.
tbf, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Sun Tzu also emphasized the power of discipline - up to and including executions to provide examples. By the same line, the Romans, with whom divide et impera (‘divide and rule’) is associated, were radical in that they regarded the Res Publica as for the good of all people under its power, not just the privileged elite or just the citizens, or even just the members of the polity’s preferred ethnicities.
Public beef?
“Public Matter”, what the Romans called their government, sometimes translated (when not translated simply as ‘Republic’) as “Commonwealth”
thank you as always for your depth of knowledge and desire to share it with us.
I enjoyed reading your original explaination, but couldn’t avoid making the stupid spanish reference of Res = beef.