ABSTRACT
Goods belong to material and situational values, which as objects to be striven for constitute the basis of actional values. They are not moral, but they are morally relevant. Directly opposed to it stands the Kantian ethics of duty; and whoever holds with Kant the conviction that only disposition and will can be good or bad, is inclined from the start to exclude the doctrine of goods altogether from ethics. Among the ancients the conception was dominant that the ethical values in general come within the scale of goods. Accordingly they indisputably deserve their place in the ethical scale of values, although it be a subordinate one. The finalistic nexus in human conduct has, therefore, as its categorial presupposition the causal nexus of the world. Hence the latter is a basic and actual value for the existence of personality.
