The articulated unity of being in Scheler's phenomenology. basic drive and spirit
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in: Manfred S. Frings (ed), Max Scheler (1874–1928) centennial essays, Berlin, Springer, 1974Abstract
In articles and books on Scheler it is commonplace to mention the difficulty of his thought and the language used to express it. The difficulty is real, but I do not think that it is attributable to the incompleteness of his thought or to its intuitive character. On the contrary, I would say that the intuitive character of Scheler's thought reveals its completeness in a very concrete experiential way. A careful reading of his works as a whole reveals an impressive consistency of vision, a vision that is not without shadows, but a vision that, precisely because of its shadows, will be recognized as one of the most seminal visions of the twentieth century.