Lifetime : Max Scheler's philosophy of time : a first inquiry and presentation / Manfred S. Frings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frings, Manfred S.

Series:

Phaenomenologica ; 169.

Phaenomenologica ; v. 169

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scheler, Max, 1874-1928.

Scheler, Max.

Time--History--20th century.

Time.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

Summary:

In comparison to Husserl and Heidegger, Max Scheler's philosophy of time as first presented here, is considerably wider in scope. Using posthumous manuscripts, Frings shows that Scheler conceived the origin of time in the self-activating center of individual and universal life as threefold "absolute" time of a four-dimensional expanse. This serves as a basis for establishing the phenomenon of objective time in multiple steps of constitutionality, including the physical field theory and theory of relativity. For Scheler, objective time, even though anchored in absolute time, deserves "maximum attention" in a technological society. Frings focuses here with Scheler on time experience of values and among social groups, time experiences in the mind-set of capitalism, in politics and morals, in population dynamics, and time experiences in the process of aging, all of which were signposts in Scheler's thought before his early demise.

Contents:

Chapter I Time Structures Among Values

A. Description of Ranks and Types of Values and Time

1. Values Felt in the Lived Body or the Sensible Values 1

2. Pragmatic Values 4

3. Life-Values 9

4. Values of the Mind 12

5. The Value of the Holy 13

B. Phenomenology of Values and of Their Time

1. Introductory Note on Value-Phenomenology 15

2. Feeling 20

3. Preferring 22

4. Love and Time 24

5. Phenomenology of Good and Evil in Relation to Time 27

C. Sociology of Values and Time

Introductory Note on Social Forms 32

1. The Mass 34

2. Utility Cooperatives 36

3. The Life-Community 42

a. Survey of Principles Underlying the Life-Community 42

b. Contemporary Attitude Toward Life Values 50

4. Society 57

a. The Argument against Society as a Social Form of Mental Values 59

b. The Argument for Society as a Social Form of Mental Values 59

5. The Encompassing Person 61

D. Ontology of Values and Time

1. The Concept of Ontology 65

2. The Ontological Place of the Being of Values 67

3. The Ontological Status of the Functionalization of Values in Reality and the Primacy of Their Givenness 72

E. Synopsis of Time Structures Among Values 74

Chapter II Life and Time

A. Reality and the Direction Toward Yet Unknown Future Events

1. The Constitution of Reality 79

a. Reality Seen Phenomenologically 79

b. Reality Seen Metaphysically 82

2. The Function of Time in Realizing Factors 85

3. The Constitution of "First" and "Afterward" in Drives 95

B. The Constitution of Time in Life 97

General Characteristics of Impulsion and Absolute Time 97

1. Impulsion 97

2. Absolute Time 100

Specific Characteristics of Impulsion and Absolute Time 102

3. The Coincidence of Meaning and Phase 102

4. Becoming and Un-Becoming. Time in the Process of Aging and Time Shifts in Consciousness 103

5. Absolute Time in Transitions 108

The Constitution of Temporalization 114

6. The Phenomenon of Fluctuation in Absolute Time 114

7. The Four Dimensions of Impulsion and Theoretical Physics 117

8. Irreversible Successiveness 122

9. Temporalization through Modification 126

a. Modification as Variation of Acts of the Person 127

b. Modification as Constituted in Impulsion 127

c. Modification and the Field Theory of Theoretical Physics 128

C. The Constitution of Objective Time 132

1. The Void 132

2. Distance 139

Chapter III At the Crossroads of the Present and the Future

A. The Diametrical Directions of Drives and Mind

1. The Growth of Mind and the Devolution of Drive Directions 145

2. The Three Eras of History and the Transition from Absolute to Objective Time 149

a. The Shifts of Sociological Transitions 153

b. The Shifts from the Predominance of Absolute Time to the Predominance of Objective Time 153

3. Types of Predictions and Their Classification 157

B. Capitalism: Three These Concerning its Meta-Economic Origin

1. Max Weber 167

2. Werner Sombart 168

3. Max Scheler 171

a. Despair 171

b. Angst 174

c. Scheler and Kant 177

d. The Paradox of Capitalism and Socialism. The Belief in Idols 181

4. Objective Time in Capitalism. A Cultural Observation 186

C. Absolute and Objective Time in Two Present Issues of Concern

1. World Population 191

a. Exposition of the Issue 191

b. Population in Capitalist Countries 193

2. Politics and Morals

a. Exposition of the Issue 204

b. Politics and Morals: Four Types of Their Relations 206

c. The Mutual Exclusion of Politics and Morality in Light of the Person 212

d. The Mutual Exclusion of Politics and Morality in Light of Values 215

e. The Mutual Exclusion of Politics and Morality in Light of Human Destiny 215

1. The German Collected Works (Gesammelte Werke) 221

2. Current English Translations 222

3. Secondary International Literature 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-235) and indexes.

ISBN:

1402013337

OCLC:

52127300