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permanent values in human personality and human action; this concern brought him to important work in phenomenology, which spread beyond Germany, chiefly through his influence. In his early thought, for which he is best known, Scheler taught that love is the great principle of human association, and he regarded God as the source of all love. From The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press.
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Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values (2 vol., 1913–16; tr. 1973)
On the Eternal in Man (1921; tr. 1960)
Man’s Place in Nature (1928; tr. 1961).
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See his Selected Philosophical Essays, tr. with an introd. by D. R. Lachterman (1973); biography by J. R. Staude (1967); studies by E. W. Ranly (1966), A. R. Luther (1972), and A. Deeken (1974), and J. H. Nota (1983).
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