Werte und Normen

“Values are the driving force of every normalisation; the norm is value solidified into obligation.” This work analyses the relation between values and norms in a width and depth not previously seen. Fundamental issues of legal theory and legal philosophy are answered using a general theory on values and moral concepts, value thinking and value language, and combined into a closed edifice of ideas. The author consistently positions himself as a subjectivist and relativist by first rejecting absolute and objective value theories as unprovable and subsequently postulates a provability of legal and moral norms that is exclusively relative. The result is a moderately legal positive approach which does not regard justice as a necessary conceptual component of law, but which views it as a target value of legislation and legal practice.