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Max Ferdinand Scheler was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Considered in his lifetime one of the most prominent German philosophers, Scheler developed the philosophical method of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology.
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Born 22 August 1874 · Died 19 May 1928 · Q76521
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JSTOR Daily: MAX SCHELER: ON THE GROUND OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
But on May 19, 1928, he died in a Frankfurt hospital due to complications from a severe heart attack
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Died 1928-05-19.
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Martin Heidegger affirmed, with Ortega y Gasset, that all philosophers of the century were indebted to Scheler and praised him as "the strongest philosophical force in modern Germany, nay, in contemporary Europe and in c
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Scheler had developed the habit of smoking between sixty and eighty cigarettes a day which contributed to a series of heart attacks throughout 1928, forcing him to cancel any travel plans.
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After Wolf had tried to force him to pay for a prostitute, Scheler sent him to his former student Kurt Schneider, a psychiatrist, for diagnosis
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Who was the sister of the noted conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
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With a thesis entitled Die transzendentale und die psychologische Methode (The transcendental and the psychological method) directed by Eucken
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Made a trip to Heidelberg and met Max Weber, who also had a significant impact on his thought
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Was entitled Beiträge zur Feststellung der Beziehungen zwischen den logischen und ethischen Prinzipien (Contribution to establishing the relationships between logical and ethical principles)
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Where he studied under Rudolf Eucken, at that time a very popular philosopher who went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1908
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Born 1874-08-22.
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