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Eine ‚neue‘ Metaphysik. Das Verhältnis von Mensch und Gott in Max Schelers Spätphilosophie

  • Evrim Kutlu
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Abstract

This paper is about Max Scheler’s understanding of a “new metaphysics”. With this conception of metaphysics, Scheler overcomes his early philosophy of religion. The concept of a “becoming God” (werdender Gott), based on Scheler’s theory of material values, ascribes a new dignity to human: human plays an essential role as God’s “co-worker” (Mitarbeiter) in the realization process of the becoming God as the reality of the world. Metaphysics and philosophical anthropology cannot be considered separately. Such a new metaphysics, which in its emphasis on “becoming being” (Werdesein) is at the same time metarial, cosmic and value-oriented, and which regards the historical world as the place of realisation of the becoming God and human beings as his co-workers, can be made fruitful in relation to today’s challenges, especially in the field of ecological ethics

Abstract

This paper is about Max Scheler’s understanding of a “new metaphysics”. With this conception of metaphysics, Scheler overcomes his early philosophy of religion. The concept of a “becoming God” (werdender Gott), based on Scheler’s theory of material values, ascribes a new dignity to human: human plays an essential role as God’s “co-worker” (Mitarbeiter) in the realization process of the becoming God as the reality of the world. Metaphysics and philosophical anthropology cannot be considered separately. Such a new metaphysics, which in its emphasis on “becoming being” (Werdesein) is at the same time metarial, cosmic and value-oriented, and which regards the historical world as the place of realisation of the becoming God and human beings as his co-workers, can be made fruitful in relation to today’s challenges, especially in the field of ecological ethics

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