ABSTRACT
Max Scheler's advisor of his doctoral dissertation and habilitation-thesis at the University of Jena, Germany, was Rudolf Eucken, who lectured in Europe and America concerning a unification of mankind. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1908. Eucken entertained correspondence with W. James, and was likely a major influence, among others, on Scheler's knowledge of American Pragmatism. This chapter illustrates Max Scheler's understanding of American Pragmatism. It discusses descriptions of some of the results of his investigations as he presented them in his treatise, "Cognition and Work." The chapter focuses on some significant pragmatic elements to be found in Scheler's two posthumous major works, the Philosophical Anthropology and the Metaphysics. Scheler showed that all knowledge possesses a sociological character that is tethered to the social forms that human beings live in. This is indicated in the title of his "Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge," a lengthy essay of which "Erkenntnis und Arbeit" is a continuation.
