Study On Max Scheler's Philosophy Of Technology

As one of the major founders of the contemporary Value Ethnics, Knowledge Sociology and Philosophical Anthropology, Max Scheler has set up a very significant role in the history of Philosophy of Technology and he has also has a reputation second only to Husserl, who is the founder of Phenomenology. And its fundamental philosophical problems are as follows:How to define Men? and what is the position of Men in Social beings? He has put the methodology of "essential intuition" proposed by Husserl into Religious Philosophy, Sociology and Ethnics and took the reality as the resistance or experience dominated by the instinctual impulses. His theory consists of Emotional Phenomenology, Philosophical Anthropology, Value Ethnics and Knowledge Sociology. And Husserl called it as the most powerful strength of Philosophy in contemporary Philosophy. Therefore, it is of great importance to make analyses and study on his thoughts from the point of Philosophy of Technology.This thesis is composed of four chapters:they are Introduction, the main ideas and academic authority of Max Scheler's, the fundamental ideas of Philosophy of Technology proposed by Max Scheler, two types of technologies and philosophical views of Phenomenology, the historical status of Max Scheler's Philosophy of Technology and its influences. We have elaborated such six important concepts as "Motivation", "Resistance", Three Types of "Facts", Two technology types, Phenomenological reductive and The understanding of the value of technology in Max Scheler's thoughts of Philosophy of Technology on the basis of the careful exploration of such works written by Max Scheler as "Problem of Knowledge Sociology", "Philosophy and view of world" and "Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values" and combining with the following such works written by Scheler at abroad, who have studied the philosophical thoughts and its achievements made by Max Scheler.Finally, we have made a summary of the historical status of Max Scheler's Philosophy of Technology and its influences. Actually, we can see many shades of phenomenology from Max Scheler's thoughts, which is inseparable from his theoretical background and thought origin. With great skill and ease, he has put the methodology of Phenomenology into other fields like Ethnics, Philosophical Anthropology, Religious Philosophy and Sociology.Max Scheler is like a "Ranger" with great thoughts, who not only has made academic and rational explorations on the society but also is the scholar bursting with greatest Human Care and "Affection" for the states of living of human beings in the Universe. "He has been a person with great affections before human beings have been people with wishes or feelings. Meanwhile, his potential spirits and the potential profusion of weaving degree, its effects and strength between Max Scheler and the universe are defined by the greatest affection, hierarchies, discrepancies and its strength of human beings.The place of human beings in the universe, the relationship between human beings and the universe and the exchange between human beings and the world are three main concerns in Max Scheler's theory, which is the very best reflection of much emphasis on the Order of being. Max Scheler perceives the Value Structure of "human beings having the nature of a god" (Microcosm, a minor god) and he has breathed the air of truth freedom. Although he has not achieved his original wishes before he died during his writing, he has left plenty of meaningful problems deserve our continuing explorations by following his tracks and ways. Human beings could make a contact with our world by the affection and it is "the inquiry" of our affection that could make the world tells the truth and the world could also achieve its satisfactory existence and values." The author can't help asking whether we should occasionally stop to think over our places in the Universe and some problems concerning "the greatest affection" or not? Max Scheler could probably give us more enlightenment.