ABSTRACT
Leo Strauss portrays Kelsen and Weber as exposed protagonists of the drift to nihilism, which he considered the most significant tendency of modern thought. He is the first author who referred to a common tendency in the works of Hans Kelsen and Max Weber. To understand Kelsen's usage of the concept 'individual norm' more precisely, people first have to recognize that the sequence offers no reason to limit the proposition cited to individuals who create law as representatives of 'the administrative or judicial organ'. For the analysis of the political Gestalt of Weber is appropriate even for the analysis of the political Gestalt of Kelsen. In the light of the preceding description people can specify this by the following: 'Intellectual freedom' means freedom to observe first and foremost for the purpose of true understanding, i.e., to reason (to 'intellectualise') in a free manner (which, as indicated, is nevertheless success-oriented).
