| Exposition of the Text | p. xiii |
| Time Structures Among Values | |
| Description of Ranks and Types of Values and Time | |
| Values Felt in the Lived Body or the Sensible Values | p. 1 |
| Pragmatic Values | p. 4 |
| Life-Values | p. 9 |
| Values of the Mind | p. 12 |
| The Value of the Holy | p. 13 |
| Phenomenology of Values and of Their Time | |
| Introductory Note on Value-Phenomenology | p. 15 |
| Feeling | p. 20 |
| Preferring | p. 22 |
| Love and Time | p. 24 |
| Phenomenology of Good and Evil in Relation to Time | p. 27 |
| Sociology of Values and Time | |
| Introductory Note on Social Forms | p. 32 |
| The Mass | p. 34 |
| Utility Cooperatives | p. 36 |
| The Life-Community | p. 42 |
| Survey of Principles Underlying the Life-Community | p. 42 |
| Contemporary Attitude Toward Life Values | p. 50 |
| Society | p. 57 |
| The Argument against Society as a Social Form of Mental Values | p. 59 |
| The Argument for Society as a Social Form of Mental Values | p. 59 |
| The Encompassing Person | p. 61 |
| Ontology of Values and Time | |
| The Concept of Ontology | p. 65 |
| The Ontological Place of the Being of Values | p. 67 |
| The Ontological Status of the Functionalization of Values in Reality and the Primacy of Their Givenness | p. 72 |
| Synopsis of Time Structures Among Values | p. 74 |
| Life and Time | |
| Reality and the Direction Toward Yet Unknown Future Events | |
| The Constitution of Reality | p. 79 |
| Reality Seen Phenomenologically | p. 79 |
| Reality Seen Metaphysically | p. 82 |
| The Function of Time in Realizing Factors | p. 85 |
| The Constitution of "First" and "Afterward" in Drives | p. 95 |
| The Constitution of Time in Life | p. 97 |
| General Characteristics of Impulsion and Absolute Time | p. 97 |
| Impulsion | p. 97 |
| Absolute Time | p. 100 |
| Specific Characteristics of Impulsion and Absolute Time | p. 102 |
| The Coincidence of Meaning and Phase | p. 102 |
| Becoming and Un-Becoming. Time in the Process of Aging and Time Shifts in Consciousness | p. 103 |
| Absolute Time in Transitions | p. 108 |
| The Constitution of Temporalization | p. 114 |
| The Phenomenon of Fluctuation in Absolute Time | p. 114 |
| The Four Dimensions of Impulsion and Theoretical Physics | p. 117 |
| Irreversible Successiveness | p. 122 |
| Temporalization through Modification | p. 126 |
| Modification as Variation of Acts of the Person | p. 127 |
| Modification as Constituted in Impulsion | p. 127 |
| Modification and the Field Theory of Theoretical Physics | p. 128 |
| The Constitution of Objective Time | p. 132 |
| The Void | p. 132 |
| Distance | p. 139 |
| At the Crossroads of the Present and the Future | |
| The Diametrical Directions of Drives and Mind | |
| The Growth of Mind and the Devolution of Drive Directions | p. 145 |
| The Three Eras of History and the Transition from Absolute to Objective Time | p. 149 |
| The Shifts of Sociological Transitions | p. 153 |
| The Shifts from the Predominance of Absolute Time to the Predominance of Objective Time | p. 153 |
| Types of Predictions and Their Classification | p. 157 |
| Capitalism: Three These Concerning its Meta-Economic Origin | |
| Max Weber | p. 167 |
| Werner Sombart | p. 168 |
| Max Scheler | p. 171 |
| Despair | p. 171 |
| Angst | p. 174 |
| Scheler and Kant | p. 177 |
| The Paradox of Capitalism and Socialism. The Belief in Idols | p. 181 |
| Objective Time in Capitalism. A Cultural Observation | p. 186 |
| Absolute and Objective Time in Two Present Issues of Concern | |
| World Population | p. 191 |
| Exposition of the Issue | p. 191 |
| Population in Capitalist Countries | p. 193 |
| Politics and Morals | |
| Exposition of the Issue | p. 204 |
| Politics and Morals: Four Types of Their Relations | p. 206 |
| The Mutual Exclusion of Politics and Morality in Light of the Person | p. 212 |
| The Mutual Exclusion of Politics and Morality in Light of Values | p. 215 |
| The Mutual Exclusion of Politics and Morality in Light of Human Destiny | p. 215 |
| Bibliographical References | |
| The German Collected Works (Gesammelte Werke) | p. 221 |
| Current English Translations | p. 222 |
| Secondary International Literature | p. 226 |
| Index | |
| Index of Subject Matter | p. 237 |
| Index of Names | p. 240 |
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