The Ethos of the Scientific-Technical World and the Idea of Man in the Writings of Max Scheler Cover Image

Ethos znanstveno-tehničkog svijeta i ideja čovjeka u misli Maxa Schelera
The Ethos of the Scientific-Technical World and the Idea of Man in the Writings of Max Scheler

Author(s): Branka Brujić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Philosophy, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Ethos; Scientific-Technical World; Idea of Man; Writings of Max Scheler;

Summary/Abstract: All the aspects of modern world converge in Scheler’s concept of the ethos. Politics, too, derives from the ethos in its essence. The author first outlines Scheler’s formal definition of the ethos, examining thereafter his definition of the ethos of the scientific-technological world and referring to the incompleteness of his ideas. The ethos is a system of factual values, which determine the pattern of the world outlook of a given socio-political framework and of the world surrounding it. To define the modern ethos, Scheler uses the model of bourgeois morality, as exemplified by the reduction of domination over nature to values relating to life in a narrower sense. This inference, though, does not follow from Scheler's own deeper insights and definitions found in his writings.

  • Issue Year: XXII/1985
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 94-106
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian