Punishment
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
punishment · good beating · offense · penalty · punish
in the texts
To Nicocles
Punishment is a royal instrument that should be firm, moderate, and applied to false accusers as to evildoers.
Visit the same punishment on false-accusers as on evil-doers.
Show yourself stern by overlooking nothing which men do, but kind by making the punishment less than the offense.
Be not willing to show your authority by harshness or by undue severity in punishment, but by causing your subjects one and all to defer to your judgement and to believe that your plans for their welfare are better than their own.
On Anger
The act of penalizing wrongdoing, discussed here as something that should be administered rationally, proportionally, and with an eye to the future rather than out of anger
None of these things does the man do who, empty of anger, imposes on each the punishment he has deserved.
This he will always observe in every punishment—that he knows the one is applied to amend the bad, the other to remove them;
he will not visit the same offence in two men with the same penalty, if the one committed it through carelessness, the other took pains to be guilty.
Cyropaedia
Punishment enforces the prohibition against deceiving or wronging fellow humans during childhood education.
but if I ever even seemed to wish to deceive a man, I know that I got a good beating for it.
and if they should act contrary to this law, the law requires their punishment, in order that, inured to such habits, they may become more refined members of society.