Abstract

The paper offers a survey of the views of the representatives of contemporary ethics concerned with the theory of values. It deals with Husserl's interpretation of ethical world and it examines also the problem of moral value in the work of M. Scheler, as well as the hierarchy of values and the notion of "ressentiment". Attention is paid also to the ethics of D. von Hildebrandt and his theory of goodness and to Hartman's ideal duty of the values of being