ABSTRACT
DeWit Parker theory is more consistently subjectivist than that of Professor R. B. Perry except for one feature forced upon him by his studies in Aesthetics—the influence of “form” in value. This theory is too simple to account for the complicated nature of the facts. If that were so then the highest and greatest values would only be matters of simple, straightforward satisfaction—the simpler and more straightforward the better. Moral values are excluded because all values are moral in the larger sense in so far as they create standards and release imperatives, while “moral values in the limited sense are special values of love and ambition.” The impulsive responses to objectives toned with prospective value have their temporary satisfactions, but over and these temporary satisfactions are larger satisfactions and dissatisfactions which tend to make their appearance whenever the immediate efforts tend to run counter to the larger aims or forms of will.
