HKB
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Often appears with: faction, party, and civil strife · crime and punishment · woolen art · unjust honours · treason and sedition · the fear of death · social shame and honor · seditious speech · relatively evil punishment as good · plebeian riot · oath-bound mutual defense · mock injuries
Usually: argument (2) · temptation (2) · detachment (2) · narrative (1) · reflection (1) · speech or oration (1) · injustice endured (1) · reconciliation (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1)
After temporary obedience, Machiavelli describes a more injurious disturbance caused by the very lowest people, especially woolen-art subordinates, who fear punishment, resent the rich, and form meetings at night to plan further violence.
citizens were united in her defense, an archbishop of Milan and a pope were unable to subdue it, and, after many years of war, were compelled to retire with disgrace. "Then why would you, by your discords, reduce to slavery in a time of peace, that city, which so many powerful enemies have left free, even in war? What can you expect from your disunion but subjugation? or from the property of which you already have p…
A seditious plebeian justifies continuing arson, robbery, and plunder to secure impunity and to turn the disunity of enemies into victory; he argues that conscience and religion matter little when facing hunger, prison, or death, and urges taking power by force and oath-bound mutual defense.
citizens for each of the superior magistracies, who, with Syndics of the arts, were to consider what could be done to restore quite, and report their resolutions to the Signors. While these things were in progress, a disturbance arose, much more injurious to the republic than anything that had hitherto occurred. The greatest part of the fires and robberies which took place on the previous days were perpetrated by th…
He argues that magistrates’ ill-treatment, excessive profits, unjust honours, fear of punishment, contempt, and disproportionate growth of parts of a state can all spark revolutions and conspiracies.
What influence ill-treatment and profit have for this purpose, and how they may be the causes of sedition, is almost self-evident; for when the magistrates are haughty and endeavour to make greater profits than their office gives them, they not only occasion seditions amongst each other, but against the state also who gave them their power; and this their avarice has two objects, either private property or the proper…
Thomas argues God can be feared only in a qualified sense: while God is not to be feared as absolute evil, fear is fitting as fear of punishment and separation from God, which justice demands.
gives rise to fear, but the consideration of His mercy gives rise to hope, so that, accordingly, God is the object of both hope and fear, but under different aspects. Reply Obj. 3: The evil of fault is not from God as its author but from us, in for far as we forsake God: while the evil of punishment is from God as its author, in so far as it has character of a good, since it is something just, through being inflicte…
Next morning, Buffalmacco and Bruno pretend to show thrashing wounds, accuse the doctor of faithless betrayal and warn him about fearing God during the prank, then accept apologies and celebrate together.
go by night after strange women!" Thus, and with much more to the like effect, while the doctor was busy washing himself, she ceased not to torment him until midnight. On the morrow, Bruno and Buffalmacco, having painted their bodies all over with livid patches to give them the appearance of having been thrashed, came to the doctor's house, and finding that he was already risen, went in, being saluted on all hands b…