Phenomenology of «axiological objectivity». The relationship between object and value in the philosophy of I. Kant and H. Rickert’s neo-Kantianism

The article examines the phenomenological category of "axiological objectivity" formulated by E. Husserl, which implies the awareness of values as valuable objects. The "object-value" is understood in connection with noesis (evaluative consciousness), intentionality (direction) and noema (object-value). The purpose of the research is to determine the relationship between the object and value in the concepts of I. Kant and neo-Kantian H. Rickert, and whether this relativity can be considered "axiological objectivity" with the similarity of the following features: consciousness, direction and conscious object. According to the research results, the "axiological objectivity" is present in I. Kant’s philosophy, and the objects themselves are realized by him as relative "objects-values" assessed as means having their own values. A person is assessed as an aim having dignity, possessing absolute value, he himself is objectified and perceived as an intelligible object. "Things in themselves" are "transcendental spiritual objects", in essence, "super-objects-values". According to I. Kant, the object and value present a relationship of identity which can be considered "axiological objectivity". The relationship between object and value is shown differently in the concept of H. Rickert who separated "transcendental values" from subject and object. Value is only connected with objectivity through the category of cultural goods as a valuable part of reality, which is not a value. In the cultural goods, value and object present a relationship of intersection. The values themselves go beyond the boundary of objectivity. Objectivity in the form of nature goes beyond the world of values, so if value is "taken away" from the cultural goods, this object becomes nature. H. Rickert's concept does not show "axiological objectivity", but points to the relationship between object and value as their intersection in cultural goods.