Formalism and Material Value in Value Ethics (Part 1 and 2)

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, efficacy theory, command theory, utilitarianism, the theory of happiness, the relationship between the actual, the ought, and the possible, and so on. 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.