Axiologist
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"Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved only according to his value."
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"The fake love of ressentiment man offers no real help, since for his perverted sense of values, evils like “sickness” and “poverty” have become goods."
— Max Scheler, b. 1874View →
"The “kingdom of God” has become the “other world,” which stands mechanically beside “this world”—an opposition unknown to the strongest periods of Christianity."
— Max Scheler, b. 1874View →
"It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism."
— Max Scheler, b. 1874View →
"We have a tendency to overcome any strong tension between desire and impotence by depreciating or denying the positive value of the desired object."
— Max Scheler, b. 1874View →
"Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights or formal social equality, publicly recognized, go hand in hand with wide factual differences in power, property, and education."
— Max Scheler, b. 1874View →