What is fascinating about Max Scheler is not his Hierarchy of Values (even Scheler himself says it is secondary, though that was Dietrich von Hildebrand fascination) but how you get there i.e. grasping what enables the access to those value modalities, that is, Scheler's Anthropology, his insights into depths and levels of human experience, affections, urges, instincts, inclinations and desires.... Scheler is answering Kant's question: What is Man? ...Homo Amas.. defined through his Ordo Amoris.. etc. ...great dissertation by Edward Vacek: Anthropological Foundations of Scheler's Ethics of Love (1978), 314 pp.
Thank you G.P.Xavier for this really clear and helpful summary of Scheler's ethical model and hierarchy of values. I was interested in learning more about Scheler on account of the work of Iain McGilchrist who has a profound philosophy of mind and life based around what is decribed as the "hemisphere hypothesis". Following your video in light of McGilchrist's analysis of the different attentional focus of the left and ight hemispheres is very illuminating. Scheler in particular seems to have a very profound and practical phenomenology. I have ordered this book as well as the Human Place in the Cosmos. Then I will move on to see what was the approach of another intellectual hero, Karol Wojtyla, in his PhD dissertation on Scheler's ethics. A really fruitful rabbit-hole to explore. Thank you again!
Thank you for the feedback - I'm glad it was helpful! I also plan to read Human Place in the Cosmos soon and to make a video on it and comparing his middle and later philosophy 🙂
What is fascinating about Max Scheler is not his Hierarchy of Values (even Scheler himself says it is secondary, though that was Dietrich von Hildebrand fascination) but how you get there i.e. grasping what enables the access to those value modalities, that is, Scheler's Anthropology, his insights into depths and levels of human experience, affections, urges, instincts, inclinations and desires.... Scheler is answering Kant's question: What is Man? ...Homo Amas.. defined through his Ordo Amoris.. etc. ...great dissertation by Edward Vacek: Anthropological Foundations of Scheler's Ethics of Love (1978), 314 pp.
Thank you G.P.Xavier for this really clear and helpful summary of Scheler's ethical model and hierarchy of values. I was interested in learning more about Scheler on account of the work of Iain McGilchrist who has a profound philosophy of mind and life based around what is decribed as the "hemisphere hypothesis". Following your video in light of McGilchrist's analysis of the different attentional focus of the left and ight hemispheres is very illuminating. Scheler in particular seems to have a very profound and practical phenomenology. I have ordered this book as well as the Human Place in the Cosmos. Then I will move on to see what was the approach of another intellectual hero, Karol Wojtyla, in his PhD dissertation on Scheler's ethics. A really fruitful rabbit-hole to explore. Thank you again!
Thank you for the feedback - I'm glad it was helpful! I also plan to read Human Place in the Cosmos soon and to make a video on it and comparing his middle and later philosophy 🙂
Big up! Your work is appreciated. Go forth, rejoicing.
Thought and perception are actually impossible without valuing.
Great!