Robert S. Hartman

Robert S. Hartman PhD. developed the first major break through in the accurate measurement of the thought processes that influence human behavior. Using the science of Axiology, the science of how we think, Dr. Hartman’s revolutionary accomplishment has changed our capacity to understand and quantifiably measure critical thought processes – thought processes heretofore believed to be intangible. These measurements applied to the SIX ADVISORS™ Assessment Report provide the participant with a clear and concise view of walls that have been holding them back and the strengths that may be underutilized.

Dr. Hartman was born in Berlin , Germany in 1910. He grew up there through WWI and into the early years of WWII. As a schoolboy, he was required to repeat the loyalty oath everyday: "I was born to die for Germany ." Even at a very early age Hartman knew that there was something fundamentally wrong with that idea, which ultimately set the background for his life work.

Early in his career he was a practicing judge in Germany during the rise of the Hitler Reich. As he became witness to the atrocities against the people of Germany he began to speak out against them. He believed in the infinite value of a human life, and that the state has a moral obligation to keep violent hands off that life. War, he thought, is madness. His rejection of all violent creeds, whether of Communism, Nazism, or Fascism, which he expressed in speeches and articles, brought him into conflict with the Nazi party and forced him to leave Germany to escape imprisonment.

Following his attendance at the German College of Political Science, he moved on to the University of Paris , the London School of Economics, and Berlin University , where he received the LL.B. in 1932. Ultimately, in 1941, he came to the United States . Over the years, he earned PhD's in Mathematics, Philosophy and Law. He held more than fifty lectureships in the United States , Canada , Latin America , and Europe . He was a research professor of philosophy the University of Tennessee from 1968 until his death in 1973.

With what he had witnessed in Germany , Dr. Hartman dedicated his life to answering the question, "What is good?" - and to answer the question in such a way that "good" could be organized to help preserve and enhance the value of human life. His work in Axiology (the science of human value systems and how humans think) resulted in the creation of the Hartman Value Profile Instrument that provides a scientific way to deductively measure the thought processes that influence attitude, behavior, personality, beliefs, and emotions, which ultimately become actions and results. The Hartman Value Profile Instrument has been subjected to many decades of research and more than 20 scientific validation studies.

As the author of more than ten books and over 100 articles, and translator of six books, he acquired a worldwide reputation. He was much loved by his many friends, students and colleagues. Most would agree with the sentiment expressed by one of them: "I have never known a more comprehensive, brilliant, creative mind; or a more enthusiastic, eloquent teacher." With a deep understanding of Philosophy and a genius for Mathematics he earned praise and esteem in the international community and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1972.

Dr. Hartman discovered that there are six very different and unique dimensions of thought. We affectionately and metaphorically refer to these six dimensions as your SIX ADVISORS™. The SIX ADVISORS™ Assessment Report is created by applying axiological mathematics to your responses to the Hartman Value Profile Instrument and expressing these results as balanced (the goal), over focused or under focused; the extent of each, the potential risks of each, and the tone of the internal dialogue.

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