Solidarität, Ausgleich und kosmopolitische Weltphilosophie nach Max Scheler

Abstract

Max Scheler dealt with intercultural thoughts early on. He describes with particular urgency the diversity and relativity of value systems, forms of knowledge, structures of the mind, world views, cultures and religious beliefs and, above all, makes clear the mutual neediness of one-sided philosophical world views. The present contribution focuses on two essential intercultural orientations in Scheler's philosophy: his concept of "solidarity" and especially his doctrine of the "age of balance". In his late philosophy, Scheler advocated a view of history according to which the different "self, world and God conceptions of the great cultures, above all of Asia and Europe", alongside other national differences, will harmonise, mutually enrich and increasingly balance each other out. In this article, I present the potentials of Scheler's philosophy which can be made fruitful for the foundation and understanding of an intercultural philosophy