The value of man in the Hartman value system

Abstract

My este,emed colleague and personal friend Robert S. Hartman has produced and published in The Structure of Value and numerous journal articles what I regard as the most brilliant, creative, and promising scheme of "metaethics" and formal axiology produced in our century. Ttre explora-

FOrmal Axiology and Its Critics

“…I do not at all understand, therefore, what Edwards means by saying that "the application of the Hartman system to actual existing men shows that they are of finite value. " 240 This kind of man is the one he has in mind, but to which my definition of man does not apply, but the Russian or a similar one does.…”

“…It is thus simply not true that "no individual human person can do what Professor Hartman suggests that we all can do in constructing a thought world. " 237 (4) It is also false, for reasons in the methodology of science, that there is an "absolutely devastating equivocation between the notion of the concrete individual human person and the ideal essence of the abstraction 'man'. " 238 Edwards underestimates both actual men, past men, and especially future man.…”

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“…As the achievements of the natural scientists analyzing natural situations in terms of mathematics, have led to the building of factories turning out new and undreamed of things, so the achievements of the moral scientists of the future, analyzing moral situations in terms of formal axiology, will lead to the building of a new society with new people, living on higher levels of awareness and possessing undreamed of insights into the subtleties and depths of moral reality. 1…”