Max Scheler

Tags: Philosopher.

Max Ferdinand Scheler (August 22 1874 – May 19 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology ethics and philosophical anthropology.

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birth date

1874-08-22

birth place

Munich

death date

1928-05-19

death place

Frankfurt

era

20th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118606964

influenced

José Ortega y Gasset, Martin Heidegger, Martin Buber

influenced by

Blaise Pascal, Edmund Husserl, Henri Bergson, Theodor Lipps, Franz Brentano, Georg Simmel, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Wilhelm Dilthey

main interest

Consciousness, Ethics, Religion, History of ideas, Value theory, Cultural critic, Sociology, Philosophical anthropology

notableIdea

Ressentiment

philosophicalSchool

Phenomenology (philosophy)