I’ve been in Cuernavaca the last few days.  Today I went to the gravesite of Robert S. Hartman.

Bob Hartman split his time in the 1960′s between his villa in Cuernavaca and his academic home at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.  When he passed away unexpectedly in September 1973, he was buried here in Cuernavaca.  He used to consult with other thinkers like Abraham Maslow, Erich Fromm and others in summer seminars down here.

I only learned about Hartman five years ago, but I have grown a lot in my esteem and admiration for what he was about during those years.  In Mexico they remember those we admire or love who have passed on Dia de Muertos (Nov 1-2).  I’m a few weeks early, but I’m writing this in honor of Robert S. Hartman, father of formal axiology and value science as a larger movement.