Now I know how you like to tweet your female relatives "It says right here and we signed it."

我知道，你会在推特网上给你的女性亲友留言说,“这是法律条约规定的，我们已经签署了的“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A good law," he says in chapter 30, "is that which is needful for the good of the people."

霍布斯在书的第30章说，一部好的法律,对维护人民的福祉是非常必要的“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

When it comes to differences of human rights and religious practices, so Claims and Conflict, people in different disciplines say "We need stronger laws, we need this, we need that."

当说到人权问题和宗教实践,在各国的不同时，也就是所谓的“冲突中的观点“,持有不同观点的人都会说,“我们需要更完备的法律，需要这个，需要那个“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Gokul says there's a difference between picking out individuals to lay down their lives and having a general law.

戈古尔说,挑选特定个体去牺牲，和依照通用法律挑选,是不同的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She explains that nature, of course, wants us to / "live according to her sober laws / and holy dictate of spare Temperance."

她解释说，自然当然希望我们,“根绝她审慎的法律/,和神圣的有关节制的规定来生活“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now, in some countries and in some jurisdictions the law might not be entirely clear on that; they might say there are other stakeholders.

但在某些国家及法律体系中,法律对此的规定并不明确,他们会说还有其他的股东

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Aristotle in his Politics says this: "As man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst of all when he is divided away from the law and justice."

亚里士多德在他的《政治学》中说,"完美的人是最好的动物,但如果他与法律和公正剥离开来,那也会是最糟糕的动物"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The purpose of law, Hobbes tell us, is not so much to control but to facilitate.

他还是说，法律的目的并非是要控制什么,而是要让事情变得井井有条更容易处理。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The best regime " he says " "is not one based on written law."

他说：“最佳政体,并非立基于成文法律“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He makes clear that law is what the sovereign says it is.

他清楚地论述说,法律就是君主的意志。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is sometimes known as the doctrine of legal positivism, which is to say that law is the command of the sovereign, a sort of command theory of law.

这就是人们所熟知的,法律实证主义学说,也即，法律即为君主的命令，这是法律的一种君权命令说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He accepts entirely, or the laws force him to accept entirely, the covenant that every citizen has with the laws that binds them to absolute obedience.

他全盘接受，或说法律迫使他全盘接受，每位公民,与法律的约定,使他们束缚于绝对服从中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Hobbes tells us that the law is what the sovereign commands.

而现在霍布斯又告诉我们说,法律就是君主的命令。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, you might look at that formulation, the state of war is one against--of all against all and you might say that such a condition of civil war, of maximum insecurity, of the total breakdown of condition of rules and laws is if anything the state of the exception.

现在，你可以看一下那个构想，抗一切人的状态,你可能会说这种,内战，最大安全感，法律规范全面崩溃的状态,实质上是一种异常状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选