Formalism and Material Value in Ethics: A New Attempt to Found a Personalist Ethics (2 Volumes)

Author: Scheler
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Scheler's work first discusses evolutionary ethics, value theory, deontological ethics, cost theory, effectiveness theory, legal theory, utilitarianism, the theory of happiness, and the relationship between the actual, the ought, and the possible, among others. It also involves conceptual categories such as "power" and "force," "community" and "society" in sociopolitical theory. For example, the discussion of "self-murder" in Chapter 6 of Book 5, the discussion of "forgiveness," the discussion of "conscience," and the discussion of "responsibility" are no less than those of contemporary thinkers such as Durkheim and Derrida. The analysis of "need" in Chapter 9 of Book 5 can even be regarded as a paradigm of phenomenological description.