Max Scheler’s Epistemology and Ethics

Abstract

The work of Max Scheler is not well known to English-speaking readers. It is to be hoped that the excellent translation of one of his major books, The Nature of Sympathy, done by Peter Heath, with a valuable introduction by W. Stark,¹ as well as the thirteen-volume German edition of his collected writings, now in process of publication, will call appropriate attention to the stature of this eminent philosopher and sociologist, whose seminal mind has so deeply influenced thinkers such as Ortega y Gasset, Nicolai Hartmann, Alois Dempf, and Paul L. Landsberg.