The Charioteer

"The charioteer of the human soul drives a pair of steeds, and one of the horses is beautiful, good, and formed of such elements, whereas the makeup of the other one is quite the opposite." -Phaedrus

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A Blog For All and None. Consider it my narrative history of ideas. A place primarily to share and obtain feedback to my thoughts through my graduate career in philosophy. For philosophy is simply "thoughts that have been thought out."

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Scheler's Gesemmelte Werke

I need to make a correction regarding something I wrote in my previous post entitled "'Rational Psychology and Philosophical Anthropology.'" Toward the end of the post I mentioned how Max Scheler was never able to spell out his philosophical anthropology in a detailed fashion due to his untimely death. I recently, and very happily, discovered this information, although it was once assumed (The translator's introduction to Scheler's 1961 edition of Man's Place in Nature assumes it to be unwritten), is false. The source of my discovery: the contents of Max Scheler's Collected Works (Gesemmelte Werke) whose editorship was taken over from Maria Scheler by Manfred Frings in 1970. The entire 15 volume German edition of the collected works of Scheler has recently been completed; A volume of which (vol. 12) contains Scheler's 350 page Philosophische Anthropologie, posthumously published along with other titles such as, On Ethics and Theory of Knowledge; Theory of Cognition and Metaphysics; Philosophy and History; And two final volumes of various essays (Varia I & II).

Here is a list of the Collected Works from Fring's website on Max Scheler.

Vol. 1 Frühe Schriften. [Early Writings] 434 pages

Maria Scheler and Manfred Frings, eds.

Vol. 2 Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik. Neuer Versuch der Grundlegung eines Ethischen Personalismus. [Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values. A New Attempt toward the Foundation of an Ethical Personalism] 659 pages

Maria Scheler, ed.

Vol. 3 Vom Umsturz der Werte. [The Turn-Over of Values] 450 pages

Maria Scheler, ed.

Vol. 4 Politisch-Pädagogische Schriften. [Political and Educational Writings] 717 pages

Manfred Frings, ed.

Vol. 5 Vom Ewigen im Menschen. [On the Eternal in Man] 488 pages

Maria Scheler, ed.

Vol. 6 Schriften zur Soziologie und Weltanschauungslehre. [Essays Concerning Sociology and Weltanschauung-Theory] 455 pages

Maria Scheler, ed.

Vol. 7 Wesen und Formen der Sympathie. [The Nature and Forms of Sympathy] 372 pages

Manfred Frings, ed.

Vol. 8 Die Wissensformen und die Gesellschaft. [The Forms of Knowledge and Society] 538 pages

Maria Scheler, ed.

Vol. 9 Späte Schriften. [Later Works] 384 pages

Manfred Frings, ed.

Vol. 10 Schriften aus dem Nachlass. Vol. I: Zur Ethik und Erkenntnistheory. [Posthumous Works Vol. I: On Ethics and Theory of Knowledge.] 583 pages

Maria Scheler, ed.

Vol. 11
Schriften aus dem Nachlass. Vol. II: Erkenntnislehre und Metaphysik.
[Posthumous Works. Vol. II: Theory of Cognition and Metaphysics]
296 pages

Manfred Frings, ed.

Vol. 12 Schriften aus dem Nachlass. Vol. III: Philosophische Anthropologie. [Posthumous Works Vol. III: Philosophical Anthropology] 382 pages

Manfred Frings, ed.

Vol. 13 Schriften aus dem Nachlass. Vol. IV: Philosophie und Geschichte. [Posthumous Works Vol. IV: Philosophy and History] 292 pages

Manfred Frings, ed.

Vol. 14 Schriften aus dem Nachlass. Vol. V: Varia I . [Posthumous Works Vol. V: Varia I] 471 pages

Manfred Frings, ed.

Vol. 15 Schriften aus dem Nachlass. Vol. VI: Varia II. [Posthumous Works Vol. VI: Varia II] 224 pages

Manfred Frings, ed.


Now, the only problem is that the majority of these works have yet to be translated into English. Therefore, there is much work involved for anyone who wants to be a Scheler scholar...