Editing Max Scheler (section)

===''Man and History'' (1924)===
Scheler planned to publish his major work in anthropology in 1929, but the completion of such a project was curtailed by his premature death in 1928. Some fragments of such work have been published in ''Nachlass''.<ref>Six volumes of his posthumous works (Nachlass), so far not translated from German, make up volumes 10-15 of the 15 volume Collected Works (Gesammelte Werke) edited by Maria Scheler and Manfred S. Frings as listed in http://www.maxscheler.com/scheler4.shtml#4-CollectedWorks</ref> In 1924, ''Man and History'' (''Mensch und Geschichte''), Scheler gave some preliminary statements on the range and goal of [[philosophical anthropology]].<ref name="Cook2003p107">Cook, Sybol (2003) [https://books.google.com/books?id=INnmk1rg_qsC&pg=PA107 ''Race and racism in continental philosophy'']</ref>

In this book, Scheler argues for a [[tabula rasa]] of all the inherited prejudices from the three main traditions that have formulated an idea of man: religion, philosophy and science.<ref>[[Martin Buber]] (1945) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2102887 ''The Philosophical Anthropology of Max Scheler''] Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Dec. 1945), pp. 307-321</ref><ref>[[Martin Buber]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=6fPU5xfv4SMC&pg=PA216 ''Between man and man''] p.216</ref> Scheler argues that it is not enough just to reject such traditions, as did [[Nietzsche]] with the [[Judeo-Christian]] religion by saying that "God is dead"; these traditions have impregnated all parts of our culture, and therefore still determine a great deal of the way of thinking even of those that don't believe in the [[Christian God]].<ref>chapter 1</ref>