ABSTRACT
Every kind of ideal Being has some sort of connection with the real, whether this consists of agreement or disagreement. In connection with our problems, the logical ideal structures, including the mathematical and all discernible essences, have their significance in this—that they are at the same time to a great extent structures of real Being. In the ethical domain this relation becomes transposed. Here there is a certain agreement of the ideal and real, just as there are limits to the agreement. All moral values have a tendency towards creative achievement. It inheres in the essence of them all, to be principles of the ethical sphere of action. The metaphysic of value, however impressive it may seem to us, nevertheless does violence to the problem of value, and ultimately to ethics. The theory of value touches upon a fundamental metaphysical problem.
