ABSTRACT
It is at this stage that ethics takes up its real task—the doctrine of value, which, as regards content, constitutes its foundation. The myth of the tree of knowledge is the point around which centres the traditional ethics of Western Christianity. The realm of values contains the secret of "good and evil". Not until we know it as a whole can we know its parts. Not until we know its manifoldness and fulness can we taste of the real fruit of the tree of knowledge. The most fatal error on Nietzsche's part is to be traced precisely to that one of his doctrines which in his time won the greatest attention—to his doctrine of the "revaluation of all values". The discoverer, indeed, could not dream that what had opened itself before him was a field for intellectual work of a new kind, which could not as yet be completely surveyed.
