 As in the ethics, Hartmann again reminds readers of what the analysis teaches us about the place of humankind in the world. “If man with his powers, his sense of values, and his occasional capacity for realizing values, is capable of bestowing meaning and value, then precisely the senselessness of the world as a whole obtains a meaning for him. […] A world that, without man, was already filled with meaning would render him superfluous even despite his gifts for bestowing meaning” (AE35a). Both the ethics and aesthetics entail a unique philosophical anthropology that inserts humankind into the complex stratified structure of the world.