FOrmal Axiology and Its Critics

Abstract

The second, also included here, was the short "Reply to Eckhardt and Brumbaugh," in The Journal of Human Relations, 21 :2 (Second Quarter 1973), pp. 220-225, a rejoinder to William Eckhardt's "The Place of Values in Human Relations" and Robert S. Brumbaugh's "Robert Hartman's Fonnal Axiology: An Extension" that appeared in the same issue of that journal. Hartman's reply to Eckhardt and Brumbaugh is incorporated into Hartman's "Formal Axiology and Its Critics" to follow in Part I. Several years ago, the incomplete manuscript of this article was called to my attention by Frank G. Forrest, who gave me a copy.Although he did not publish most of his responses to his critics, Robert S. Hartman nevertheless was a prolific writer of such responses. Many of these rejoinders were in letters, copies of which now exist in the Hartman archives in the Special Collections Library of