One of the pioneers of modern sociology, Max Scheler (1874-

1928) ranks with Max Weber, Edmund Husserl, and Ernst

Troeltsch as being among the most brilliant minds of his

generation. Yet Scheler is now known chiefly for his

philosophy of religion, despite [...]

Upon Scheler's death in 1928, Martin Heidegger remarked that he was the most important force in philosophy at the time. Jose Ortegay Gasset called Scheler 'the first man of the philosophical paradise.' "The Human Place in the Cosmos", the last of his works Scheler completed, is a pivotal piece in th[...]

"Scheler har givet frugtbare synspunkter og frugtbar basis for etiken ved at give denne en fænomenologisk basis og samtidig - vel i en meget forstaaelig overvældethed af denne ny intuitions frugtbare resultater - forvansket etikens egenart ved at gøre denne fænomenologiske basis til hele etiken.[...]