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ments, and to look upon either of the two as comprised 

 within the other. 



The consequences of the introduction of the terms 58. 



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value and worth are most clearly seen in the philosophy by Lotze. 

 of Lotze, who employs them to make more intelligible 

 more accessible to the human understanding the essence 

 of that which in the speculations of Schelling and Hegel 

 had figured as the Idea, the essence of the truly Eeal, 

 which to the human soul presents itself as that which 

 has intrinsic value or worth, which deserves to exist for 

 its own sake. Accordingly Lotze, as I have stated on 

 several occasions, starts in his philosophy from the 

 empirical fact that the phenomenal world, the world 

 also of common - sense, consists of three intermingled 

 regions the world or region of Things, the world or 

 region of Laws, and the world or region of Values or 

 Worths. 



In quite recent times this conception has found a 

 restatement in the writings of Professor Hoffding, who 

 divides the great philosophical problem into the three 

 distinct problems the problem of existence, the problem 

 of knowledge, and the problem of value. It must, how- 

 ever, be at once remarked that the ultimate formula, 

 through which Lotze tries to bring the three regions 

 of thought into harmony, has not proved satisfactory 

 to Hoffding. 



The second point through which Herbart has in- 59. 



Closer con- 



fluenced sesthetical theory lies in this, that he has nectionof 



^Esthetics 



brought aesthetics and ethics into a closer connection and Ethics, 

 than they had in the system of Kant. If in aesthetics 



