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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966552903321

Autore

Scheler Max <1874-1928.>

Titolo

Ressentiment / / Max Scheler ; translation, Lewis B. Coser, William W. Holdheim ; introduction, Manfred S. Frings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, Wis., : Marquette University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-87462-441-X

Edizione

[New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

172 p

Collana

Marquette studies in philosophy ; ; #4

Altri autori (Persone)

FringsManfred S

Disciplina

179/.8

Soggetti

Resentment

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Text in English.

Translation of: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen. Enl. ed., 1915.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-167) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Lewis B. Coser William W. Holdheim -- Manfred S. Frings -- Prefatory Remarks -- On the Phenomenology and -- Sociology of -- and Moral Value Judgment -- Christian Morality and -- and Modern Humanitarian Love -- and Other Value Shifts in Modern Morality -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph constitutes a response to the criticisms of Christianity outlined in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals , in which Nietzsche argues that Christianity is a 'slave revolt' of the weak-an attempt by the impotent to bring down the vitality of the capable nobility. Scheler's response is multi-faceted but centers on Nietzsche's failure to understand the nature of Christian love. Christianity is not a destructive enterprise trying to bring everyone down to the same low level of its impotent faithful, who must put their trust in the next world because they can get nowhere in this one. Rather, it attempts constructively to bring everyone up to a new level of human flourishing. Christianity's preoccupation with the poor, weak, and marginalized stems from a recognition, through divine love, of the miracle of God's creation and infinite possibilities present even in them.