期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1975
卷号：2
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：Law rewe& itsey as smething seg-contratEictow, OR the one it chims to be somethbg essentdy good or rzobk: it b the kt0 that saws the cities and everything eke. h, the other had, the law pre$ers,i.s itself as the comon op'azioaz or de~sionof the city, ie., of the m.u&tifw$eo f citizens. As such it is by no mewe sse.nt~iggo od or noblee It 7aay ?)e?y wekl be the wo~kof folly adb ageness. There ,is certaiipidy no .i-emwra to erssume that the mkem of hws are as a mle wiser tbaa "go'ar. and P"$ why, then, 8houM "gou and P" submit to the& decisions? The mere jacd that the sme laws which were sokmnky ewted by the city are repeded by the same city w'th egde okrn~iaityw oved seem to show the do?~bt&iP charmter of the wbdom that went into their making. The questio??,, then, is whether the claim of the law to be something good or noble can be simply dismissed dldi dtogether unfouazded or whether it eontais aa ebment of truth. (Leo Slrauss, Natgrd Right and Histoq, p, BQL .)
