Scheler's philosophic reflections on religious experience and on the connections between this experience and those reflections seek to found a phenomenological personalism. Hence I first delineate his conception of person via his view of phenomenology as resulting from a critique of husserl. I then elaborate scheler's conception of philosophy in terms of the intentional acts involved. After a similar elaboration of scheler's view of religion, I present his 'system of conformity' of the proper interplay of philosophy and religion. I conclude (...) by indicating why his phenomenological anthropology is not only inadequate to the foundational task assigned to it but methodologically incoherent. (shrink)

There is much in this little book that will interest students both of Kant and of the Enlightenment. Its chapter headings indicate the topics addressed: "I. Kant's Middle Class Life: From Gallant Tutor to Withdrawn Scholar," "II. Kant and the Enlightenment: Kant's Theory of the Impossibility of Total Error," "III. Seeking Inner Maturity: Origin and Decline of a Leading Idea of the Enlightenment," "IV. Basic Forms of Praxis: Preliminary Reflections on the Foundations of Kant's Practical Philosophy," and "V. Ethics and (...) Politics: When is a Person Fully a Political Agent?". (shrink)