Max Scheler
Max Scheler · Philosophy & Social Sciences
German phenomenologist and founder of philosophical anthropology (of Jewish descent)
1874, Munich, Germany — 1928, Frankfurt, Germany
Germany
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Max Scheler was a leading German phenomenologist and a founder of philosophical anthropology, developing an influential theory of values (material ethics) and of sympathy. His mother came from an Orthodox Jewish family, giving him Jewish ancestry; he was baptized a Catholic in his youth and later distanced himself from the Church. His work shaped 20th-century phenomenology and the sociology of knowledge.
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German phenomenologist and founder of philosophical anthropology (of Jewish descent)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
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