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Name:
Max Scheler
Dates:
Born: August 22, 1874 in Munich, Germany
Died: May 19, 1928 in Frankfurt Germany
Specialization:
Phenomenology
Ethics
Epistemology
Philosophy of Religion
Major Works:
Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Value (1913)
The Nature of Sympathy (1913)
On the Eternal Man (1921)
Biography:
Max Scheler was not a typical academic philosopher in that he did not strive to create a
single, coherent, unified system of philosophy. Instead, he ranged over a wide area, developing
ideas here and there without any overarching unity to them. Nevertheless, he was highly regarded
by his peers for the quality of his ideas and Martin Heidegger, upon Scheler's death, remarked
that he was the most important force in philosophy at the time.
Scheler is generally considered a phenomenologist, having applied phenomenological insights to topics like religion and ethics. Some of Scheler's ideas include the concept of the individual person not as an object or thing, but rather as a "doer" - that which takes action and engages life and that while the existence of God cannot be proven, perhaps personal intuition can allow a person to realize that God exists.
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