Max Scheler

Max Scheler
Born
Max Ferdinand Scheler

(1874-08-22)22 August 1874
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died19 May 1928(1928-05-19) (aged 53)
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
Education
Alma materLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin
University of Jena
Rudolf Eucken
Other advisors
Wilhelm Dilthey
Theodor Lipps
Georg Simmel
Carl Stumpf
Philosophical work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Phenomenology
Munich phenomenology
Ethical personalism
InstitutionsUniversity of Jena
Doctoral students
Hendrik G. Stoker
Notable students
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Helmuth Plessner
Main interests
History of ideas, value theory, ethics, philosophical anthropology, consciousness studies, sociology of knowledge, philosophy of religion
Notable ideas
Value-ethics, Ressentiment, ethical personalism, ordo amoris
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Max Ferdinand Scheler (German: [ˈʃeːlɐ]; 22 August 1874 – 19 May 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Considered in his lifetime one of the most prominent German philosophers, Scheler developed the philosophical method of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology.

After Scheler's 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."