Sun Tzu · Politics
Beneath the stratagems lies Sun Tzu’s sober vision of war’s gravity: a matter of life and death for the state, to be approached with dread, founded on the moral unity of ruler and people, and entrusted only to the general of wisdom, courage, and restraint.
You learned that Sun Tzu founds war on the ‘Moral Law’ - the unity of people and ruler. Explain in your own words why he thought this moral foundation mattered more than weapons or numbers.
Leads to Thucydides.
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