Abstract
Because there is no worldwide value system, there is no shared interpretation or any other similar agreement on the symbols of humanity, as for example the Human Rights Charter. Human orders exist side by side, all values are oriented vertically, from highest values to lowest unvalues. This essay deals therefore with the idiosyncracies of verticalism, the hierarchies of interpreters, and the horizon of orders in a world of "endlessly eased communications." There is a need for corresponding symbols, not for still "higher" values.
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