ABSTRACT
Value is a phenomenon of the complexity of will due to the fact that philosophers have general and relatively permanent aims which can only be realized by a multiplicity of purposive activities. When the present, attentive, purposive activity is so directed upon an objective that its aim is in apparent harmony with that of the more ultimate and general will upon which it depends, and of which it is a particular expression, then value experience is positive. When the primary and subsidiary forms of will are not thus in harmony value experience is negative. The highest moral experience and genuine religious experience are essentially one. Stripped of the accretions of magic and myth religion is, as Professor John Baillie describes it, "a moral trust in reality," "an apprehension of reality through, and in terms of, our moral values." One can grasp the moral ideal and serve it without recognizing its metaphysical significance.
