Robert S. Hartman (d. 1973) was Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee and the National University of Mexico. His lifelong quest was to answer the question, What is good?--and to answer the question in such a way that good could be organized to help preserve and enhance the value of human life. He believed that he had found this answer in the axiom upon which he based his science of axiology: A thing is good when it fulfills its concept.
The Robert S. Hartman Institute is very pleased to be able to
reprint Dr. Hartman's seminal work on Formal Axiology. Making this
important book available again will allow serious thinkers about
values to have access to the foundations of the science of value
and will stimulate the continued enhancement, exposition, and
development of the theory, which, we hope, will help make better
people and the world a better place.
-Arthur R. Ellis, Ph.D., Chair of the Board, Robert S. Hartman
Institute I've never read a book on values that gave me more food
for thought . . . fantastically ingenious and challenging.
-Charles Hartshorne, University of Texas In reading this book, one
is impressed by its grand design and possibility of infinite
applications . . . Professor Hartman's essay is indeed worthy of
attention.
-Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Hartman, recognized
authority in value theory, presents what may be his magnum opus . .
. He argues with verve, clarity, ingenuity, and erudition . . . The
preliminary chapters on the nature of philosophy and science and on
the historical background of his views will be stimulating and of
some interest to the reading public.
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