20th century · 1874–1928
Who influenced Max Scheler?
Influences and legacy
Phenomenologist of values, love, and the personal core of the human.
Max Scheler was influenced by Edmund Husserl, and went on to influence Martin Heidegger. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Max Scheler?
Max Scheler, a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics and philosophical anthropology, developed the method of Edmund Husserl and was one of the best-known German philosophers of his day.
After his death in 1928, Heidegger called him the strongest philosophical force in modern Germany and in contemporary Europe.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Max Scheler?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Edmund Husserl 1859–1938
Who did Max Scheler influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Max Scheler.
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
The line of teachers behind Max Scheler
The longest documented line of influence ending at Max Scheler runs 23 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Rudolf Hermann Lotze
- Edmund Husserl
- Max Scheler
Two steps away from Max Scheler
Indirect influences
The second generation
Contemporaries of Max Scheler
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Max Scheler, with no direct line between them.
- Nikolai Berdyaev 1874–1948
- Ernst Cassirer 1874–1945
- G. E. Moore 1873–1958
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
- Muhammad Iqbal 1877–1938
- Sergei Bulgakov 1871–1944
- Semyon Frank 1877–1950
- Kitarō Nishida 1870–1945
Max Scheler by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 88
- Thinkers downstream
- 12
- Wikipedia languages
- 57 — #38 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Max Scheler
- Who influenced Max Scheler?
- Edmund Husserl.
- Who did Max Scheler influence?
- Martin Heidegger.
- When did Max Scheler live?
- 1874–1928. The map files Max Scheler under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Max Scheler card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Max Scheler in 57 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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