ABSTRACT
The predicates and the responses are ultimately only outward manifestations of an existing inner connection between grade and the kind of valuation feeling. Difference of response and the difference of predicates which runs parallel with it constitute the only means of access. Max Scheler law, correctly understood, would undoubtedly furnish us with a basis for the phenomenology of grades in a scale of values, and not only for the larger intervals in a whole group, but for the finer and often imponderable gradations of moral values among themselves. The appropriateness of a specific response to a specific value can by no means be transposed at will. A plain indication of this gradation is the differentiation of the valuational predicates, which Cf. Aristotle applies to the single virtues. All differentiation in valuational answers and predicates rests upon it, and at the same time upon its inherence in the feeling for values.
