Love And Rancor In Max Scheler’ S Philosophy

In Scheler’s philosophy, love is not blind but a fundamental mental behavior. Love appears before awareness and love inspires us to fathom higher values of subjects. In the second chapter, we are going to interpret the nature of love and the principles that are followed in functioning this emotion. Love is also easily confused, so it is necessary to distinguish pure love and fake love. In real culture, people usually have all kinds of misunderstanding toward love. In fact, love includes two parts: the willing to love and the ability of love. People usually dominate others in name of love, which is impurity in the willing of love and also a disordered consequence of love. People usually take wrong approaches even though they want to love others, because lovers’ recognition to the beloved ones is not deep enough and lovers are hard to make the value of love come true. In reality, people frequently advocate equality in love, among who disdain higher value because of anger and who attempt to reduce the distance between themselves and the subjects of anger under the disguise of conventions or traditions. But the fact is that equality does not equals to fairness, so the third chapter shows all sorts of misunderstanding toward love.Love has order. However, when this order is broke down, rancor is the result. When there is hate on the world, there must be disorders of love. In essence, rancor is a kind of anti-emotion emerged because of the conflicts between the beholders’ and others’ values. This emotion is the root cause of soul’s torture. The fourth chapter demonstrates the causes of rancor and several situations that might produce rancor and also the negative impacts accompanied rancor.In Scheler’s philosophical system, love and rancor are two major and dominant parts. Love and rancor construct people’s mental world and decide how shady everyone’s inner world is. The last chapter shows our the relation between love and rancor and our daily life, showing the meaning of the idea of love and rancor to the real life.