ABSTRACT
This chapter reassesses Scheler's account, and intricates the issue of intentional and normative collectivism. It shows that Scheler's account of Gesamtperson (CP) fulfils all four requirements, shows that Scheler's concept of the CP fulfills plurality, integrity, and normativity requirements. Despite any ambiguities and occasional collectivistic undertones, Scheler's concept of the CP is ultimately anti-collectivist in spirit, or, at the very least, compatible with anti-collectivism. Scheler's oscillation between collectivism and anti-collectivism is clear in the passages of his notorious essay 'War as Communal Experience'. A tension seems to presents itself when one considers Scheler's intricate concept of co-responsibility and, in particular, his concept of "communal guilt". Given Schuler's idea of the essential incommensurability of individuals in terms of their values, and in terms of their radical separateness as individual bearers of values, we seem to have a criterion of individuation for CPs.
