Ethics of Kautilya

Dipak Basu () and Victoria Miroshnik ()
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Dipak Basu: Nagasaki University
Victoria Miroshnik: Reitaku University

Chapter Chapter 4 in Ethics, Morality and Business: The Development of Modern Economic Systems, Volume I, 2021, pp 105-124 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One of the main writers of ancient India was Kautilya. This chapter analyzes his book Arthashashtra or Economics, which describes the basic ethical business system as it was in the fourth century B.C. in India. Kautilya’s idea of the state was a socialist state within Monarchy, and the king should be like a guardian to the subjects. That idea was implemented in the Maurya Empire (from 322 B.C. to 185 B.C.) fully and partly later on. Kautilya’s relationship with both Plato and Machiavelli was analyzed.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71493-2_4

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