Chanakya (Kautilya) · Politics
The other face of the <em>Arthashastra</em>: the doctrine that in the happiness of his subjects lies the king’s own happiness, the punishing daily schedule of the ideal ruler, and the conquest of the senses - self-mastery - as the true root of statecraft, held in permanent tension with the treatise’s ruthless means.
You learned Kautilya’s doctrine that the king’s happiness lies in his subjects’ welfare, his demand that the ruler be endlessly accessible and disciplined, and his claim that self-control (the conquest of the senses over the six inner enemies) is the root of statecraft - all in tension with the treat…
Leads to Ashoka.
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