PSCI 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Croesus, Astyages
27 Jan 2017
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In book 2, chapter 2, a captain brings up how his tentmate wants more of everything and cyrus replies to him: cyrus explains how men like his tentmate need to be expunged from the army. They took more in taxes than they should have, ignored justice in favor of receiving bribes, and took to war all to be able to give in to their vice of accruing wealth. The sons then influenced the entire regime to give in to this vice, causing the entire regime to fall. Adding on, cyrus believes that vice is a problem for his army. He believes that his army should have ultimate discipline: vice hurts the people as a whole. Cyrus says that it damages their associates of their cost of keeping: these people are shameless and lack virtue. Vice leads to others acting vicious: this is related to politics because when people are unvirtuous they hurt the whole idea of justice.
