A true German and with a significant teaching tenure (Jena, Munich, Cologne), Max Scheler, besides his philosophical credentials, also had a diplomatic side (he served in Geneva and The Hague).

He was strongly influenced by Husserl's phenomenology, and all his written work constituted a long journey of phenomenological deviations, which must also include his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

His fundamental philosophical position was developed in his work "Formalism in Ethics," where Kantian ethics is critically examined based on Pascal's thought.

The foundation and hierarchy of values (life values that do not exclude the religious ascent to holiness and the sacred) were his persistent philosophical concern.

The problems of death, the tragic, the eternal within man, sympathy, knowledge, and man's position in the world constitute a constellation of inquiries always centered around ethics.

He was born in Munich in 1874 and passed away in Frankfurt am Main in 1928.

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