ABSTRACT

The realm of the categories offers itself as a region where the laws are possibly analogous. It is the universal system of the principles of being. The two poles of the realm of values, that of the simplest elements and that of the most complex materials, elude our observation. They lie beyond the limits of what can be known. Our survey is inadequate even for a mere theory concerning a tabulation of values. Likewise, even for a further analysis of the good. If its content consists in aiming at the higher value, the scale of values is presupposed in it. Surveying the whole series essentially different types and groups of regularity, as such, can be seen with great distinctness. Amidst the general obscurity which surrounds the system of values, even to hold in mind the mere types of regularity is a help.