authority co-varies with the opposite. The horizontal dimension runs from the individual’s quest for survival to his demand for protection of integrity and autonomy. Worth noticing are the differences in values among the European countries in general and within the European Union in particular, especially if we include candidate countries like Estonia, Latvia, Hungary and the Czech Republic A sociologist may have good reason to ask legal historians or specialists in comparative law why it is supposed Europeans share a common legal culture, when their basic life values are so astonishingly divergent as indicated by the World Value Map? Will the integration of European law and institutions remain a legal project with little grass-root support? 115 survival vs. self-expression traditional vs. secular-rational authority
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