Böcker av Max Scheler

Explores, at different levels, the social emotions of fellow-feeling, the sense of identity, love and hatred, and traces their relationship to one another and to the values with which they are associated. This book reviews the evaluations of love and sympathy in different historical periods and in different social and religious environments.

A lengthy critique of Kant's apriorism precedes discussions on the ethical principles of eudaemonism, utilitarianism, pragmatism, and positivism.

Max Scheler was one of the major philosophers of the 20th Century. He was one of the three original phenomenologists - with Husserl and Heidegger - who set the scene for phenomenological, existential and life philosophy. This translation, taken from his posthumous writings, brings together what he wrote on metaphysics and human anthropology.

Offers a response to the criticisms of Christianity outlined in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, in which Nietzsche argues that Christianity is a "slave revolt" of the weak - an attempt by the impotent to bring down the vitality of the capable nobility.