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Max Scheler's essay on virtue, fi rst published under a pseudonym in 1913, begins with some refl ... more Max Scheler's essay on virtue, fi rst published under a pseudonym in 1913, begins with some refl ection upon the decline in his era of a concern for virtue. Its central theme is a phenomenological exhibition of the Christian experience of humility, reverence, and related concepts, together with an exploration of their historical and social embodiments in Western culture. Th e core of humility is a spiritual readiness to serve, related to love, that produces in its possessor a liberation from the ego. Th e core of reverence is its sense of what surpasses our vision. It has the power to reveal to us the deeper value and being in all things. Th e paper contains elements of a polemic directed against scientifi c naturalism. B ecause 1 of the lofty and sentimental apostrophes directed at it by the citizen poets, philosophers, and preachers of the eighteenth century, the word "virtue" has become regarded with such disfavor that we can hardly help but smile when we hear or read it. For our epoch, in which work and success are paramount, it is suffi cient to speak of "profi ciency." Moreover, the virtues of our times are so decidedly ugly, so divorced from people, and so much attached to the rules of that independent living monster we call "business" or "enterprise," that people of good taste take care of their virtue in silence, and are zealous to keep at least such matters from becoming public. 2 When false solemnity curries favor with a thing, it does not leave it long unsullied.
... For thousands of years every philosopher had stood on the shore of this sunless sea, diving f... more ... For thousands of years every philosopher had stood on the shore of this sunless sea, diving for pearls and never finding them. . ... 6I have in mind discussions among such thinkers as AJ Ayer, Hilary Putnam, or Saul Kripke as to whether talk of essences is disruptive of empiricism. ...
Phenomenology 2010. Volume 5: Selected Essays from North America, Part 1, 2010
The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, 2011
The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, 2010
Journal of Value Inquiry, 1997
Max Scheler's essay on virtue, fi rst published under a pseudonym in 1913, begins with some refl ... more Max Scheler's essay on virtue, fi rst published under a pseudonym in 1913, begins with some refl ection upon the decline in his era of a concern for virtue. Its central theme is a phenomenological exhibition of the Christian experience of humility, reverence, and related concepts, together with an exploration of their historical and social embodiments in Western culture. Th e core of humility is a spiritual readiness to serve, related to love, that produces in its possessor a liberation from the ego. Th e core of reverence is its sense of what surpasses our vision. It has the power to reveal to us the deeper value and being in all things. Th e paper contains elements of a polemic directed against scientifi c naturalism. B ecause 1 of the lofty and sentimental apostrophes directed at it by the citizen poets, philosophers, and preachers of the eighteenth century, the word "virtue" has become regarded with such disfavor that we can hardly help but smile when we hear or read it. For our epoch, in which work and success are paramount, it is suffi cient to speak of "profi ciency." Moreover, the virtues of our times are so decidedly ugly, so divorced from people, and so much attached to the rules of that independent living monster we call "business" or "enterprise," that people of good taste take care of their virtue in silence, and are zealous to keep at least such matters from becoming public. 2 When false solemnity curries favor with a thing, it does not leave it long unsullied.
... For thousands of years every philosopher had stood on the shore of this sunless sea, diving f... more ... For thousands of years every philosopher had stood on the shore of this sunless sea, diving for pearls and never finding them. . ... 6I have in mind discussions among such thinkers as AJ Ayer, Hilary Putnam, or Saul Kripke as to whether talk of essences is disruptive of empiricism. ...
Phenomenology 2010. Volume 5: Selected Essays from North America, Part 1, 2010
The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, 2011
The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, 2010
Journal of Value Inquiry, 1997