West-östliche Fundamente

Diesseits und jenseits

Abstract

Foundations are an old dream. Not only religions but also lawyers dream this dream. The latter have suffered from natural law’s resigning and the loss of an earthly or heavenly order of values leaving behind nothing but positive law. These modern laws, reinterpretated again and again and once again are the expression of formalistic, relativistic, contradictory way of existence. Apart from politics, law is the second important social communication area, in which the uncertainty remains so persistent. These are reasons why ideas and literature come up in a time – that is simultaneously facing the upsurge of fundamantalism – and are filled with the longing for absolute, plain and uniform principles in law; a longing that deserves closer examination.