摘要:
This essay examines the thought of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, the advances made by the legal realist juris-prudential movement, and correlates the two. It concludes that legal realism is entailed in Nietzschean metaphysics, and particularly his doctrine of will to power. Legal realism is determined to be a symptom of the more comprehensive Nietzschean principle of power. A preliminary framework for a Nietzschean justification of legal realism is developed.