FORMALITÀ E MATERIALITÀ DELL’ETICA. DAL DOVER ESSERE ALL’EVIDENZA ASSIOLOGICA

Abstract

The paper intends to investigate the deconstruction of the kantian ethical formalism by Max Scheler, who, adopting the phenomenological method, establishes an order of a priori knowledge absolutely distinct from natural and the scientific knowledge. Phenomenological knowledge leads to intuition of essences, that, according to their degree of generality, can be formal or material. Identifying a form of knowledge different from intellectual synthesis and the sensitive perception, namely fühlen or axiological feeling, Scheler releases the a priori from legislator mechanism of intellect and also from characteristics of objects. The a priori is rather a plainness that appears immediately in eidetic intuition, such as hierarchical structure of meanings and values, which constitutes the logos that permeates the universe.

Keywords

• Scheler
• moral
• phenomenologie