ABSTRACT
Max Scheler explained that human nature was made so that the simple form of the "state of peace" as such posed constitutive dangers, serious constitutive factors, and which only war and nothing else but war could repair and eliminate. Eternal peace is possible in human history". Scheler was a scholar with very wide-ranging interests: in addition to politics, he devoted his attention to religion, ethics and sociology. Scheler acknowledged, however, that there was a vast current of thought according to which war was closely tied to human nature and indispensable for human survival and development. In Scheler's interpretation, progress towards peace was underway, but there was no way of knowing how far away the goal was. Scheler's political commitment can be traced to before the war when, within the framework of German Catholic culture, he began to reflect on the need for spiritual renewal in Germany to counter the materialist mentality of capitalism originating from Anglo-Saxon countries.
