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The Greeks were the first to develop theories concerning an answer to the question of how human ideas come about and how their origin must be understood. We bring into focus two such theories in order to juxtapose them in this section with a third, more recent position concerning this question. The third position is not only the one developed by Max Scheler, but in essence also concerns a prevalent and original philosophical outlook: pragmatism.
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Scheler was already familiar with Heidegger’s concept of “at-handedness” when he read Heidegger’s BEING AND TIME. For details see my analyses of the possibility of ethics in BEING AND TIME on the basis Scheler’s Value-Ethics, PERSON UND DASEIN, (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff: Phaenomenologica, 32, 1969), pp. 38–44.
Concerning “psychic contagion” see; Max Scheler. THE NATURE OF SYMPATHY, trans. Peter Heath (Hamden: Shoe String Press, 1973), Part I, 2.
PHILOSOPHISCHE ANTHROPOLOGIE, GESAMMELTE WERKE, Vol. 12, Manfred S. Frings, ed., (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1987), p. 148f.
Max Scheler, ON THE ETERNAL IN MAN, trans. Bernhard Noble (Hamden: Shoe String Press, 1972), pp. 199–203. The indices of subjects in the German Collected Edition list many more references to “functionalization.” Conf. especially, Vol. 12, loc. cit., p. 146.
FORMALISM IN ETHICS AND NON-FORMAL ETHICS OF VALUES, trans. Manfred S. Frings and Roger L. Funk (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973), p. 12.
I pointed to the significance of the temporality of moral goodness first in my Introduction (Einleitung) to Pope Paul John II, philosohical writings, in Karol Wojtyla Johannes Paul II. PRIMAT DES GEISTES. PHILOSOPHISCHE SCHRIFTEN (Stuttgart: Seewald Verlag, 1980), pp. 19–33. I regard the temporality of the moral good as a most pressing problem in ethics today, and I have referred to it on other occasions in various details. Scheler never articulated moral temporality in his work, but must be credited for having paved an important way toward this question in the foundation of ethics.
METAPHYSIK UND ERKENNTIS, GESAMMELTE WERKE, Vol. 11, Manfred S. Frings, ed., (Berne and Munich: Francke Verlag, 1979), pp. 119f. This fragment was written in 1926/7.
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Frings, M.S. (1987). Mind and the Genesis of Human Ideas. In: Philosophy of Prediction and Capitalism. Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3637-9_4
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