Goods theory

As a theory of goods or Agathologie (instruction of the good) that part of the ethics referred describing the nature and types of spiritual and moral values or values. As a doctrine of goods, ethics appears particularly in Friedrich Schleiermacher and August Döring , for whom it is considered the philosophical “central science”. Döring calls the theory of goods "the science of values", of generally valid values ​​and of total value.

literature

• August Döring: Philosophical doctrine of goods: Investigations into the possibility of happiness and the true mainspring of moral action ; Berlin 1888