Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann developed ethics upon a phenomenological basis. This volume demonstrates that their contributions to a material ethics of value are complementary: by supplementing the work of one with that of the other, we obtain a comprehensive and defensible a…
The idea of material value-ethics -- The phenomenology of value -- The orientation of human beings toward value -- Values and moral values -- Action theory and the problem of motivation -- Goodness and moral obligation -- The concept of virtue and its foundations -- Virtue ethic…
The book is the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann's seminal book which addresses all philosophical questions of the arts. It will be of value to graduate students in philosophy, scholars concerned with 20th century Continental philosophy, students of aesthetics and a…