ABSTRACT
The difference between relationality and relativity, which is so often effaced, is as essential for a clear understanding in ethics as it is in theoretical philosophy. The opposite of relationality is the substratum, that of relativity is the absolute. Every moral value is also a goods-value indirectly, and as such is relative to a subject—that is, it actually exists "for" other persons. All moral imputations attach to the person, he bears guilt and responsibility; judgments of approval and disapproval made by others, as well as condemnation through his own conscience, apply to him as a person. The nature of the twofold relation is completely severed from the nature of the values themselves. The ethical dimension of value and anti-value, together with its qualitative differentiation, finds scope only within this general relational structure.
