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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Conclusion

Arthur R. Luther

pp. 161-168

Abstract

The conclusion of this study of Scheler's Wesen und Formen der Sympathie is that ultimate reality for Scheler is a holy communion constituted by persons in love. The ontological dimension of this communion lies in the fact that love is not simply an act among other acts executed by a person, but an act in whose execution a person is who he is as a concrete creative presence. Moreover, insofar as love coincides with the inexhaustible concrete creative presence of God, it discloses not only the unique orientation who is the person executing the act, but love also discloses all other persons as they are, namely, in God, and in the direction of fullness. To say that loving is the person orientated towards other persons in the direction of fullness, is to say that being is not empty, and is not exercised in a vacuum but is concrete act. For Scheler the core of Being is concrete presence or loving, which is to say, an unending, dynamic, creative, mutual disclosure of persons in the direction of fullest and highest possible be-ing. As executed loving, being is actualized or participated more deeply, more intensely, more intimately, and so on, as fundamentally for the other, as he is within the total structure of reality.

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Luther Arthur R. (1972) Persons in love: a study of Max Scheler's Wesen und Formen der Sympathie. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 161-168

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-2796-0_5

Full citation:

Luther Arthur R. (1972) Conclusion, In: Persons in love, Dordrecht, Springer, 161–168.