Killing a Chinese Mandarin: The Moral Implications of Distance
Killing a Chinese Mandarin: The Moral Implications of Distance
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杀死一个中国普通话：距离的道德含义
作者：
C. Ginzburg
关于法律和人，正义和不正义有两种定义。现在有两种规律，特殊的和一般的。所谓特殊法律，我指的是每个民族针对自己制定的法律，这些法律又分为成文的和不成文的；我所说的一般规律是指那些基于自然的规律。事实上，有一种与自然相一致的正义与不正义的普遍观念，因为所有的人都以一种神圣的方式存在，即使他们之间既没有沟通也没有协议。这显然就是《索福克勒斯》中的安提戈涅的意思，当她宣称埋葬波利尼斯是正义的，虽然是被禁止的，因为他天生就是正义的：“因为这些法令既不是今天也不是昨天，而是从永恒中存在的，没有人知道它们是从哪里来的。
Justice and injustice have been defined in reference to laws and persons in two ways. Now there are two kinds of laws, particular and general. By particular laws I mean those established by each people in reference to themselves, which again are divided into written and unwritten; by general laws I mean those based upon nature [KOcT& 4ir)Uv]. In fact, there is a general idea of just and unjust in accordance with nature, as all men in a manner divine, even if there is neither communication nor agreement between them. This is what Antigone in Sophocles evidently means, when she declares that it is just, though forbidden, to bury Polynices, as being naturally just: "For neither to-day nor yesterday, but from all eternity, these statutes live and no man knoweth whence they came."I