Max Scheler
Philosopher, Author
1874 – 1928
Who was Max Scheler?
Max Ferdinand Scheler was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Scheler developed further the philosophical method of the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, and was called by José Ortega y Gasset "the first man of the philosophical paradise." After his death in 1928, Martin Heidegger affirmed, with Ortega y Gasset, that all philosophers of the century were indebted to Scheler and praised him as "the strongest philosophical force in modern Germany, nay, in contemporary Europe and in contemporary philosophy as such." In 1954, Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, defended his doctoral thesis on "An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing a Christian Ethics on the Basis of the System of Max Scheler."
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- Born
- Aug 22, 1874
Munich - Religion
- Catholicism
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- Lived in
- Munich
- Died
- May 19, 1928
Frankfurt
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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