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Friedrich Nietzsche
His themes is the importance of subjectivity w/c has to do with the way people
relate themselves to truth. Subjectivity is truth and truth is subjectivity.
Martin Heidegger – German / 20th century philosopher
Heidegger considers that only the man as being, can have a intelligence of being.
Max Ferdinand Scheler – is the founder of Philosophical antropology
TRIVIA: Max Ferdinand Scheler
" After his death in 1928, Martin Heidegger admitted, 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, modern Europe and in modern Philosophy.“
Even Karol Wojtyla, Later know Pope John Paul II defended his Doctoral thesis on
“An Evaluation of the Possibility of constructing a Christian Ethics” on the basis of the
systems of Scheler.
Max Scheler’s work interests;
Value theory – is concerned with theoretical questions about value and goodness of all
varieties, questions that cross about ethics
Ethics – a branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles
Phenomenology – is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness
Philosophical anthropology – logical study of what makes as human
History of ideas – a field of research in history that deal with expression, preservation and
change of ideas over time
Sociology of knowledge – that social life has influence on human knowledge, thought and
culture
Philosophy of religion – discuss questions re; the nature of religion as whole
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