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Max Scheler
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It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil.
— L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 51
Max Scheler
German philosopher (1874-1928)
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A German philosopher who took Husserl's phenomenology and bent it toward ethics and the question of what human beings actually are — considered by Heidegger the strongest philosophical force in Europe before vanishing from most non-specialist conversation after his death in 1928.
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Max Ferdinand Scheler was born 22 August 1874 in Germany and spent his career extending Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method into territory Husserl hadn't claimed: ethics, emotion, the structure of personhood. By the 1920s he stood among the most prominent philosophers in Germany, working out a philosophical anthropology that asked what separates humans from animals and how values operate in lived experience. He died 19 May 1928, and in the aftermath both Martin Heidegger and Ortega y Gasset declared that every philosopher of the century owed him a debt. The tribute didn't stick — his name…
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Max Scheler
saidundated
Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment.
— L. Coser, trans. (1973), pp. 52-53
Max Scheler
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The ultimate goal of the arriviste’s aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than others.
— L. Coser, trans. (1973), pp. 55-56
Max Scheler
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The medieval peasant prior to the 13th century does not compare himself to the feudal lord, nor does the artisan compare himself to the knight.
— L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 56
Max Scheler
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The “old maid” with her repressed cravings for tenderness, sex, and propagation, is rarely quite free of ressentiment.
— L. Coser, trans. (1973), pp. 61-62
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