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Max Scheler: Values

1. Max Scheler argued that values come from an individual's pre-rational preference and exist in their own realm, separate from senses and intellect. 2. Values are "a priori" or beyond reason, anchored in the "logic of the heart" and are independent of whatever objects bear them. The bearer may change but not the value itself. 3. Scheler outlined five principles of values, including that the longer a value lasts, the harder it is to reduce, the fewer other values it depends on, the greater the satisfaction from its realization, and the less related it is to any carrier's existence, the higher the value.

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Max Scheler: Values

1. Max Scheler argued that values come from an individual's pre-rational preference and exist in their own realm, separate from senses and intellect. 2. Values are "a priori" or beyond reason, anchored in the "logic of the heart" and are independent of whatever objects bear them. The bearer may change but not the value itself. 3. Scheler outlined five principles of values, including that the longer a value lasts, the harder it is to reduce, the fewer other values it depends on, the greater the satisfaction from its realization, and the less related it is to any carrier's existence, the higher the value.

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MA X SCHELER:

VALUES
WHAT ARE VALUES?
• Came from an individual’s pre-rational
preferring of values
• There is a separate realm between
senses and intellect

Senses Feelings Intellect


WHAT ARE VALUES?
• Values are “a priori”
– Beyond the reach of reason
– Anchored on “ordo amoris” (Logic of the heart)
• Values are independent from the bearers

Values Objects Values are


“Goods” objectified
• The bearer of the value may change but not
the value.
What do you think made
the child happy?
FIVE PRINCIPLES
1. The longer it lasts, the higher the value is.

vs.

2. The harder it is to reduce the quality of the value based on the number of carrier, the higher
it is.

vs.
FIVE PRINCIPLES
3. The fewer other values it has as its base, the higher it is.

vs.

Ambience Taste Company


Presentation
Quality of Service
FIVE PRINCIPLES
4. There is an intrinsic relationship between the rank of the value and depth of satisfaction
from its realization.

vs.
5. The less the sense of the value is related to the existence of its carrier, the higher the value
is.
HIERARCHY OF VALUES
Holy and Unholy – values appear on objects given intentionally
as “absolute objects”
Bliss and Despair

Spiritual Values – independent of the body and the environment


Aesthetic Value; Just and Unjust
Pure knowledge for its own sake.

Vital Values (Value of Life)


Noble and Vulgar; Connected to the General Well-Being
Courage, Anxiety, Anger, etc.

Sensory Values
Agreeable vs. Disagreeable Pleasant vs. Unpleasant
Pleasure and Pain
SELF-ASSESSMENT

How well did I understand this lesson?

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