ABSTRACT

“Strength” shows itself in the low grade of the anti-value, that is, in the gravity of a violation against the corresponding value. A single average level of neutrality therefore is the same for all materially different scales, that is, for the scales of every single value and its corresponding disvalue. The level of neutrality therefore is the same for all materially different scales, that is, for the scales of every single value and its corresponding disvalue. The absence of the virtue which dispenses spiritual values is manifestly no moral delinquency, but its presence influences others like a kind of moral perfection. A survey of values proves beyond all doubt that increasing height indicates also an increase of the valuational quality itself; but a decreasing height shows a diminution of quality. The positive-negative scale of the highest value would lie wholly above the indifference-point; that of the lowest, entirely beneath.