Abstract
The objectives of this study are to reconstruct the debate on value relativism by focusing on the thought succeeded by Karl Jaspers from Max Weber and to consider the possibility of approaching contemporary theories of justice from the history of thought, based on the implications of the above.
Therefore, first the study will demonstrate and argue that Weber’s “value discussion” is different from the conventional understanding of the thought on “value relativism”, and is rather a discussion that directly undertakes the issue of the “rightness” of conduct, by developing and evaluating this issue through the two criteria of “technical criticism” and “value logical criticism”. Second, the study will illustrate that Jaspers, who is known as an existentialist, has succeeded and philosophically elaborated and extended the thought of Weber as a “communication” theory.
This study will identify that Weber and Jaspers’s thoughts are closely related to issues in contemporary philosophy of law through the analysis of both thoughts, and moreover, demon strate the potentialities and possibilities of value relativism and the study of history of thought.
