 Strauss’s reading of Halevi centers on the question of what Halevi, in his Kuzari, could have meant by the “law of reason.” Through a detailed analysis of the Halevi’s Kuzari, Strauss concludes, “the iura naturalia are really not more than the indispensable and unchangeable minimum of morality required for the bare existence of any society.” But as Strauss points out, the unchangeable minimum of morality is in fact, from a moral point of view, not very much after all. In explicating Halevi’s position, Strauss elaborates on Halevi’s comment in the Kuzari that “Even a gang of robbers must have a kind of justice among them if their confederacy is to last,” (the analogy refers to, without mentioning, Plato’s parable of the robbers in Republic, Book 1, 342b-d). Strauss writes: