The love and the joy in M. Scheler''s philosophy

Abstract

The author considers the conception of the joy and of the man as ‘ens amans' within the phanomenology of emotions by M. Scheler. It is shown that the latter, being based on the duality of ‘spirit' and ‘life' in the Human being, has been evolving since the mid-1920's toward the metaphysics based on the duality of ‘spirit' and ‘impulsion' in the becoming of the ‘ground of being'. The phenomenology of love and hate alters into the metaphysics of good and evil, while Scheler focuses on the conception of the ‘sublimation' which explains the energy exchange between ‘spirit' and ‘impulsion' within the human being as a ‘microtheos'.