Abstract

The goals and values of human life and activity constitute a complex hierarchical system, its highest level presented by the ideals as embodiments of both the final goal of the whole activity and the fundamental value that defines the goal-setting on lower hierarchy levels. Human personality mastering social values provides a limit for their spontaneous self-organization, but the recognition of the ideals still enables further self-organization of goals and values as continuous approximation of the ideal level as the ultimate determinant of the life-activity.