Realizing a Vision for Global Values Education

Abstract

Hartman initiated world change with three words, “What is good?” And with three more words, he revolutionized how we understand the properties of good. He saw that all the properties of a good world were not there yet; that the nature of its crisis was a value problem and the solution was values education. Throughout his life, Hartman had a vision for mass education in value science and value judgment, attempting many times to establish a world center in values training. He outlined how such a center would begin and develop in several unpublished articles, now digitized for common access through the European Branch. We submit, without an education center specifically dedicated to value education, we are incomplete in the good task of furthering the work of Hartman and his axiology. We introduce the Center of Applied Value Sciences as one answer to this call, concluding that it is an ethical mandate to do so and invite collaboration to see it increase value consciousness on a global scale. To the man and his science, we dedicate a center of his own vision.