Moral values are simply thoughts about what is good for a human being. The true nature of things and of all goings-on comes to light in the mind's eye in the form of a value. It would be correct to call these values "eidoses," or speculative forms, and to call the consciousness in which they are implanted "eidetic consciousness." Eidetic consciousness, taken as pure contemplation, or as the empty space of the inner "I," extraneous to external definitions, is doomed to metaphysical suffering. The propensity to think exclusively of oneself has a bitter taste. However, this kind of suffering does not humiliate a human being. Instead, the suffering of the eidetic consciousness was a subject of pride for philosophers such as Socrates, Pascal, and Kierkegaard. Certain eccentrics cultivate the eidetic consciousness as an inner refuge. Most people periodically fall through into this dimension, or soar in this space. Thinkers such as existentialists, analytics, theosophists, and others, who believe that values, from the point of view of intelligible and clear ideas, can be contemplated only in their tautologicality and immovability, as an inner given of consciousness, are correct.
Normativity is a process of human consciousness in general, and not only of the forms of consciousness pertaining to values. Normativity should not be conflated with rationalizations (that is, the most organized and stereotyped fragments of the perception of reality). Normativity is also inherent in the irrational aspect of consciousness. At the same time, simple methods, for instance, introspection, are insufficient to obtain a picture of the normative armature of consciousness.
Some mental derangements push the normative-value elements of consciousness to the surface. For example, in the condition of clinical death, as well as in acute neuroses, imperative hallucinations are observed. People hear voices that call them by name and demand certain actions from them. Among the incidences of this in Christianity, we can count the voices of the saints that Joan of Arc heard, and God's behest to Abraham. Such phenomena as "devil's incitements," "inner voices," and "the howls of the conscience" are also regarded as irrational normative prompts. A person literally hears