Bøger af Max Scheler

A translation of Scheler's ""The Human Place in the Cosmos"". It addresses two main questions: What is the human being? And what is the place of the human being in the universe? It also covers various levels of being: inorganic reality, organic reality (including plant life and psychological life), and the way up to practical intelligence.

From the mysterious powers and forces peculiar to both individual and community that can turn our lives into either good or bad lives, I wish to point to two such powers being at the same time different in their own nature and yet closely related to each other: The powers that emerge from exemplary persons and leaders.

Shows the characteristic quality of that which is religious.

The Nature of Sympathy explores, at different levels, the social emotions of fellow-feeling, the sense of identity, love and hatred, and traces their relationship to one another and to the values with which they are associated

Max Scheler (1874-1928) decisively influenced German philosophy in the period after the First World War, a time of upheaval and new beginnings

Explores, at different levels, the social emotions of fellow-feeling, the sense of identity, love and hatred, and traces their relationship to one another and to the values with which they are associated. This book reviews the evaluations of love and sympathy in different historical periods and in different social and religious environments.

A lengthy critique of Kant's apriorism precedes discussions on the ethical principles of eudaemonism, utilitarianism, pragmatism, and positivism.

Max Scheler was one of the major philosophers of the 20th Century. He was one of the three original phenomenologists - with Husserl and Heidegger - who set the scene for phenomenological, existential and life philosophy. This translation, taken from his posthumous writings, brings together what he wrote on metaphysics and human anthropology.