MAX SCHELER’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF MORAL ACTION
MAX SCHELER’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF MORAL ACTION

Summary/Abstract: Scheler’s phenomenology of action begins with an inquiry into the nature of conation (Streben), and attempts to exhibit the process by which an initially undirected urge is first given content by values and representations,which condition the conscious formulation of purposes and eventual acts of will,in which action is undertaken to realize a specific value-content in a situation or thing. On this basis, Scheler argues that Kant’s limitation of the moral evaluation of acting persons to the content of their will renders invisible the many levels upon which action is in fact evaluated by both agents and observers.

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