Editing Max Scheler (section)

==Life and career==

===Childhood===
Max Scheler was born in [[Munich]], Germany, on 22 August 1874, to a well-respected orthodox Jewish family:<ref name = "SEP"/> his [[Catholic]] father had converted to Judaism in order to marry his mother. He had "a rather typical late nineteenth century upbringing in a Jewish household bent on assimilation and agnosticism."<ref>Graham McAleer, "Introduction to the Transaction edition", in Max Scheler, ''The Nature of Sympathy'', London: Routledge, 2017, p. lxiii.</ref> He converted to Catholic Christianity in 1901.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoeres |first1=Peter |title=Scheler, Max Ferdinand |url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/scheler-max-ferdinand/ |website=1914-1918-Online (WW1) Encyclopedia |access-date=22 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

===Student years===
Scheler began his university studies as a medical student at the [[University of Munich]]; he then transferred to the [[University of Berlin]] where he abandoned medicine in favor of philosophy and [[sociology]], studying under [[Wilhelm Dilthey]], [[Carl Stumpf]] and [[Georg Simmel]]. He moved to the [[University of Jena]] in 1896 where he studied under [[Rudolf Eucken]], at that time a very popular philosopher who went on to win the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1908. (Eucken corresponded with [[William James]], a noted proponent of [[American pragmatism|philosophical pragmatism]], and throughout his life, Scheler entertained a strong interest in pragmatism.) It was at Jena that Scheler completed his doctorate and his ''[[habilitation]]'' and began his professional life as a teacher. His doctoral thesis, completed in 1897, was entitled ''Beiträge zur Feststellung der Beziehungen zwischen den logischen und ethischen Prinzipien'' (Contribution to establishing the relationships between logical and ethical principles). In 1898 he made a trip to Heidelberg and met [[Max Weber]], who also had a significant impact on his thought. He earned his ''habilitation'' in 1899 with a thesis entitled ''Die transzendentale und die psychologische Methode'' (The transcendental and the psychological method) directed by Eucken. He became a lecturer (''[[Privatdozent]]'') at the University of Jena in 1901.<ref name = "SEP"/>

===First period (Jena, Munich, Gottingen and World War I)===
When his first marriage, to Amalie von Dewitz,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.enotes.com/max-scheler-salem/max-scheler| title = Max Scheler Biography - eNotes.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/13727504/MAX-SCHELERS-VALUE-ETHICS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723031305/http://www.docstoc.com/docs/13727504/MAX-SCHELERS-VALUE-ETHICS |archive-date=23 July 2012 |title=MAX SCHELERS VALUE ETHICS}}</ref> ended in divorce, Scheler married Märit Furtwängler in 1912, who was the sister of the noted conductor [[Wilhelm Furtwängler]]. Scheler's son by his first wife, Wolf Scheler, became troublesome after the divorce, often stealing from his father, and in 1923, after Wolf had tried to force him to pay for a prostitute, Scheler sent him to his former student [[Kurt Schneider]], a psychiatrist, for diagnosis. Schneider diagnosed Wolf as not being mentally ill, but a [[psychopath]], using two diagnostic categories ([[Gemütlose psychopathy|Gemütlos]] and [[Haltlose personality disorder|Haltlos]]) essentially equivalent to today's "[[antisocial personality disorder]]".<ref>J. Cutting, M. Mouratidou, T. Fuchs and G. Owen, "Max Scheler's influence on Kurt Schneider", ''History of Psychiatry'' v. 27, n. 3, p. 336-44 (here p. 340-41); citing A. Krahl and M. Schifferdecker, "Max Scheler und Kurt Schneider: wissenschaftlicher Einfluss und persönliche Begegnung", ''Fortschritte der Neurologie und Psychiatrie'' v. 66, p. 94-100 (1998).</ref>

===Second period (Cologne)===
After 1921 he disassociated himself in public from Catholic teaching and even from the [[Judeo-Christian-Islamic]] God,<ref>Schneck, Stephen Frederick (2002) [https://books.google.com/books?id=EdhjFeWEh3kC&pg=PA6 ''Max Scheler's acting persons: new perspectives''] p.6</ref><ref>Frings, Manfred S. (1997) [https://books.google.com/books?id=OAbXAAAAMAAJ ''The mind of Max Scheler: the first comprehensive guide based on the complete works''] p.9</ref> committing himself to [[pantheism]] and [[philosophical anthropology]].<ref>McAleer, op. cit., p. lxiii.</ref>

Scheler had developed the habit of smoking between sixty and eighty cigarettes a day which contributed to a series of heart attacks throughout 1928, forcing him to cancel any travel plans. On May 19, 1928, he died in a Frankfurt hospital due to complications from a severe heart attack.<ref>{{cite web|title=Max Scheler|publisher=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scheler/|year=2018|author=Zachary Davis and Anthony Steinbock}}</ref>