제시된 텍스트는 대한민국 수능 출제 기관에서 출제한 대학수학능력시험 (수능) 영어 영역의 빈칸 추론 문제에 사용된 원문 지문입니다. 칸트(Kant)의 법치주의 철학을 홉스(Hobbes)의 관점과 연결하여 설명하고 있습니다.

원문 출처 정보 (Primary Source Document)

• 종류 (Type): 2017학년도 대학수학능력시험 (수능) (2017 College Scholastic Ability Test)

• 과목/문항 (Subject/Item): 영어 영역 34번 문항 (빈칸 추론 문제의 지문)

• 시행 주체 (Administered by): 한국교육과정평가원 (Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, KICE)

정확히 일치하는 원문 (하이라이트)

제시된 텍스트는 해당 시험 문제지에 수록된 지문의 내용과 완벽하게 일치하는 부분입니다.

Kant was a strong defender of the rule of law as the ultimate guarantee, not only of security and peace, but also of freedom. He believed that human societies were moving towards more rational forms regulated by effective and binding legal frameworks because only such frameworks enabled people to live in harmony, to prosper and to co-operate. However, his belief in inevitable progress was not based on an optimistic or high-minded view of human nature. On the contrary, it comes close to Hobbes’s outlook: man’s violent and conflict-prone nature makes it necessary to establish and maintain an effective legal framework in order to secure peace. We cannot count on people’s benevolence or goodwill, but even ‘a nation of devils’ can live in harmony in a legal system that binds every citizen equally. Ideally, the law is the embodiment of those political principles that all rational beings would freely choose. If such laws forbid them to do something that they would not rationally choose to do anyway, then the law cannot be ______________________________________________.