Realizing Moral Values: On Acting Persons and Moral Values in Max Scheler's Ethics (Report‪)‬

1. Introduction Max Scheler's philosophical magnum opus Formalism in Ethics--is an attempt to elaborate the philosophical foundations of ethical personalism. 'Personalism' is a term that is rather difficult to define very precisely, and there is a wide range of philosophers that have been called personalists. Albeit that the term personalism--which goes back to Friedrich Schleiermacher--seems itself sometimes too broad, it is a fact that in the first half of the twentieth century, several thinkers--often Christian thinkers indeed--focussed on the concept of the person in their writings, and that these thinkers considered themselves (or were seen by others) as personalists.