 The core of his axiological analysis focuses on moral values in the western ethical tradition. He considers a handful of general or fundamental values, including the good, the noble, richness of experience, and purity, before launching into more detailed analyses of three historically dominant clusters of values stemming from ancient Greek, Christian, and Modern morality, all of which continue to carry normative force today. In the Greek group, Hartmann covers justice, wisdom, courage, and self-control, and discusses Aristotle’s theory of the mean with reference to values such as generosity, ambition, and magnanimity. The core value of the Christian group of values is brotherly love. This kind of love is directed at whomever is nearest, to the other person as person (ET2 24a). Truthfulness, reliability, faith, modesty, and humility are other values that fall in this group. In contrast to these historical clusters, there are also values associated with the impulse to transform them, turning against comfort, tradition, and inertia, exhibiting a striving for progress, chasing ideals that go beyond the life of the individual. It is hard to name some values in this third group because they are so new, but Hartmann calls the first value “love of the remotest,” following Nietzsche. It is love for the ideal of humankind as it should be, and knows that ignoring this ideal is wrong. Radiant virtue (Nietzsche’s “schenkende Tugend”; see Nietzsche 2006) is connected to the present. It is the sense of spiritual fullness, imparting to others spiritual goods, an overflowing ability to share, to broadcast values, and the delight in so doing. “Personality” is the sense that each person has a unique character and complex ideal personality that they “ought” to approximate as best they can. It is a new norm for the person. The singularity of personal behavior is as much an “ought” as is the universal ought. His descriptions and discussions of many of the values considered central to western morality, especially of the Modern ethos (ET2 30e-33f), are fascinating and worth sustained attention.