ABSTRACT
Max Scheler was born in Munich (August 22, 1874) and died in Frankfurt am Main (May 19, 1928) just before taking up his post as professor at the University of Frankfurt. He started his studies in Munich (1893), where he was enrolled for medicine, but transferred to Berlin the next year, where studied philosophy under Wilhelm Dilthey and sociology under Georg Simmel. Many of Scheler’s works were published during his lifetime. After his death, his third wife, Maria Scheler, preserved his research manuscripts and edited some of them for publication in the Gesammelte Werke series. Scheler’s family difficulties and tempestuous love life contrasted with his early Catholic conviction. This is said to have made Scheler quickly realize the difficulty of combining theory with praxis, especially insofar as Christianity and bourgeois worldviews could no longer provide guidance on values to the European peoples in the twentieth century.
