ABSTRACT
The relativists’ inability to explain adequately or even sufficiently consider the groupings of values is their major failure. The relativist identification of values and desires denies the significance of man’s experience with time. There are other characteristics of value judgements that distinguish them from the phenomena with which they are sometimes identified. The nature of the ideology appears to be of no importance, provided it enables the system to exist; nor does it seem to matter in the least what the positive law is, provided it is compatible with the ideology. The relativist asserts that had those who had put forward these standards of natural law been raised in a different environment, their ‘reason’ and ‘conscience’ would have led in quite different directions. Relativists try to overcome this difficulty by treating part of the law — the ideology, constitution or norm of norms — as both a kind of positive law and a kind of natural law.
