Max Scheler is the foremost exponent of axialogy.

Acts reveal the person's value preferences. Like a prism that reflects the invisible spectrum of colors, a person's acts manifest his invisible order of values

– Max Scheler

1. Pleasure Values

• The pleasant against the unpleasant
• The agreeable against the disagreeable
• utilitarianism

2. Vital Values

• Values pertaining to the wellbeing either of the individual or the community.
• lebenswerte: courage, fidelity, magnanimity, generosity

3. Spiritual Values

• Values independent of the whole sphere of the body and of the environment
• Grasped in spiritual acts of preferring loving and hating
• beauty , goodness and truth

4. Values of the Holy

• Appear only in regard to objects intentionally given as "absolute objects"