ABSTRACT
In considering the topic of “Psychotherapy and spirituality” the author soon came to realize that one specific question particularly interested the him. The fundamental question is whether it can have any meaning in any other world-view. Aristotelian scholasticism is a system characterised by strongly vertical relations. This chapter addresses one rather important and specific meaning: what gives force and stability to values? It shows that there may be a place, in a scientific world-view, for values that have force and stability in their own right and are not merely subservient to the real politico of evolution.
