ABSTRACT
The narrower realm of strictly moral values is that of acts and persons. Activity, strength and endurance are values of acts and therefore of persons; the same is true of freedom, foresight and purposive activity. There are even aesthetic and perhaps many other actional values of persons. At the base of all moral values lies a fundamental group, in which the “good” forms the core. To it belong clearly nobility, richness of experience and purity, and perhaps others which cannot be determined a priori. What characterizes these values is that they are common to many very different kinds of behaviour and in no way characterize one special kind only. On these general values turns the basic problem of this whole class of values. Strictly analogous is the relation to the positive opposites, moral goodness is imputed in the same way as moral badness; it wins acknowledgment, approbation, admiration, reverence.
