Max Scheler Philosopher

Max Ferdinand Scheler (German: [ˈʃeːlɐ]; August 22, 1874 – May 19, 1928) 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 John Paul II'>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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Birth date	August 22, 1874
Birth place	Munich
Date of death	May 19, 1928
Place of death	Frankfurt
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Consciousness Ethics Religion History of ideas Value theory Cultural critic Sociology Philosophical anthropology

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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
notable idea	Ressentiment
philosophical school	Phenomenology (philosophy)