ABSTRACT
The great philosopher Kant poked fun at the jurisprudence of his time as still not knowing how to define law: “jurists are still searching for a definition of their concept of law,” he remarked ironically. He himself worked — but without success — to find a solution of the problem, and since his time many outstanding thinkers, philosophers, and jurists have worked in the same field of investigation. Even now, however, “jurists are still seeking a definition for their concept of law.” The fact that the enormous amount of labor expended in this direction, and the great number of more or less ingenious and profound attempts to define the essential nature of law that have accumulated in the course of time, have thus far failed has even given rise to doubt, recently, that the problem can actually be solved.
