ABSTRACT
Values are principles. They stand, although conditionally, on a level with existential categories. The peculiarity of their contrasted nature does not prevent them from being analogous to the categories. The dependence of the finalistic series upon the causal series of the third level is of the greatest importance for the understanding of the whole: only thus is a coherence of the two types of determination in the one real world possible. The first and third links of the finalistic nexus move in the direction of the time process. For providence and predestination are the attributes of divinity, whose wisdom, power and overruling control of the world they are said to express. Mythological and religious thought has always attributed all power to God, as it has also understood values to be his commandments.
