Max Scheler's Hierarchy of Values

G. P. Xavier
G. P. Xavier
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Published 2023-12-07
An overview of philosopher Max Scheler's hierarchy of values. According to Scheler, values are inherently ordered into different levels.

Scheler developed a phenomenology of value and helped found a unique approach to ethics known as material value ethics. This video introduces material value ethics, explains how he applied the phenomenological approach to value, and outlines the ordered hierarchy of values that came from this.

0:00 Introduction
3:56 Material Value Ethics
18:46 Establishing the Order of Values
20:50 The Act of Preferring (and Placing After)
28:26 Five Properties Associated with Value Height
42:00 The Hierarchy of Values
42:51 Sensual Values
44:27 The Useful
46:04 Vital Values
48:43 Spiritual Values
52:24 'Absolute' Values
56:26 Conclusion
All Comments (4)
  • @dylanx9327
    What is fascinating about Max Scheler is not his Hierarchy of Values (even Scheler himself says it is secondary, though that was Dietrich von Hildebrand fascination) but how you get there i.e. grasping what enables the access to those value modalities, that is, Scheler's Anthropology, his insights into depths and levels of human experience, affections, urges, instincts, inclinations and desires.... Scheler is answering Kant's question: What is Man? ...Homo Amas.. defined through his Ordo Amoris.. etc. ...great dissertation by Edward Vacek: Anthropological Foundations of Scheler's Ethics of Love (1978), 314 pp.