ONTOLOGY OF GOOD IN MAX SCHELER’S AND NIKOLAI LOSSKY’S PHILOSOPHY
Annotation
The article examines a number of provisions expressed by Max Scheler and Nikolai Lossky who were the greatest philosophers of the first half of the 20th century. Article based on their works, it substantiates the position that the formation of axiological discourse during this period in parallel in the European and Russian philosophical motion. Ethical problems inevitably arose when criticizing neo- Kantian and phenomenological transcendentalism, which assumed intentional complex for access to the fundament of knowledge and action. Max Scheler and Nikolai Lossky were critics of the transcendentalist position and they develop an epistemological model of “direct access” to essential content, which is called “intuitionism”. Values were not only a purely anthropological phenomenon, but its received existential content, as fundamental characteristics of reality itself. The article is devoted to a comparison of these two concepts in Scheler’s and Lossky’s works.
Keywords
axiology, values, intuitionism, philosophy, transcendentalism, formalism,
Max Scheler, Nikolai Lossky
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The study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 25–28–00841, https://
rscf.ru/project/25–28–00841/; Тhe Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities named after
Fyodor Dostoevsky