Só uma curiosidade que me coça:
A frase de Leo Strauss em seu template, é do 'Natural Right and History'?

Abraço

Isso, Evelyn. Mas abri o livro para procurar e já não consigo mais achar a referência. Pode? Só eu, mesmo.

O mais próximo que encontrei foi isso aqui:

"Many people today hold the view that the standard in question [standard of right and wrong independent of positive right and higher than positive right] is in the best case nothing but the ideal adopted by our society or our "civilization" an embodied in its way of life or institutions. But, according to the same view, all societies have their ideals, cannibal society no less than civilized ones. If principles are sufficiently justified by the fact that they are accepted by a society, the principles of cannibalism are as defensible or sound as those of civilized life. From this point of view, the former principles can certainly not be rejected as simply bad. And, since the ideal of our society is admittedly changing, nothing except dull and stale habit could prevent us from placidly accepting a change in the direction of cannibalism. If there is no standard higher than the ideal of our society, we are utterly unable to take a critical distance from that ideal. But the mere fact that we can raise the question of the worth of the ideal of our society shows that there is something in man that is not altogether in slavery to his society, and therefore that we are able, and hence obliged, to look for a standard with reference to which we can judge the ideals of our own as well as of any other society."

Um abraço;
Márcio Guilherme.