dinbilHierarchical structure of values has been criticized by some of the new Kantian philosophers for not being systematic and lack of a certain kind of justification of values, which were handled by Max Scheler by all means before Hartmann. Hartmann, pursuing the path pioneered by Scheler in the field of Ethics of Contextual Values (Materiale Wertethik), reinterprets the values in terms of definition, relation, phenomenon, and at the same time, he set forth the values in a hierarchical order with an approach based on his own new entity (neue Ontologie) philosophy. Reality is divided into two as real and ideal by Hartmann. According to this distinction, reality is divided into four groups on the basis of the basic relationship of advertisi...