Law Thinkers Definitions

Law (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be the will of a caste that behaves like a violent individual toward others; its goal is a rule all have paid for by sacrificing their instincts.

Law (n.) began ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as the restrictions the brothers imposed on one another after overpowering the father — the discovery that a combination is stronger than one man.

Law (n.) claims ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠violence for itself to stop the crudest violence, but cannot reach the more cautious and refined forms of aggression.

Law (n.) once ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠admitted to be purely human loses its rigidity, and people begin to see it as made to serve them rather than rule them — aiming to improve it, not abolish it.

Law (n.) only ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠forbids men to do what their instincts incline them to do: there is no law commanding us to eat or forbidding us to put our hands in the fire.

Law (n.) dates ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠itself back to claim holiness: present institutions are pinned on Moses to borrow binding force from the past.