Editing Max Scheler (section)

===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"/>