| Summary/Abstract |
Starting with an overview of the ‘tyranny of values’ notion introduced by
Carl Schmitt, this article discusses how values are converted into political
goals and managed by societies. While both Schmitt and Robert Spaemann
emphasized the danger of ‘automatic enactment’ of values, today in a
mobilized society the situation aggravates as the differentiation between
a policy system based on violence and orders, and a culture system
offering common patterns for comprehending social life diminishes or
disappears completely. But this danger is often overlooked by the states,
particularly if the communities of states discover the community of
values, and their citizens willingly offer them their support in critical
situations.
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