ABSTRACT
According to this interpretation an intellectual function of a practical order dominates the moral life. The form in which it penetrates the manifoldness of the situations and conflicts of life is purely logical. Even the emotional aspect of the mind—feeling, preference, love, hate, volition—possesses an original aprioristic character which it does not borrow from thought, and which ethics has to accept quite independently of logic. Valuational consciousness is necessarily a material and objective consciousness. The moral laws rest upon the patterns, that everything which ought to be is conditioned by them and refers to them, in nowise derogates from their material, objective character. Valuational structures are ideal objects, beyond all real Being and Not-Being, also beyond the really existing feeling of value, which alone grasps them.
