In his Preface to the second edition of Formalism (1921), Scheler showed no doubts: the false heroism of duty and work, taught widely in German philosophy starting with Kant, is at the origin of the betrayal of joy and love as the original sources of all well-being, and is also the cause of the frightful disorder of the heart that afflicts the contemporary idea of work. For Scheler, it was a matter of retracing a horizon of meaning that, drawing upon that aknowledged source of the ontological dynamism that is love, can reintegrate work into the overall becoming of being, freeing it from the economic requisition that happened in the modern age and, at the same time, restoring its essential transcendental function of “leading to realization” at the service of ethics and metaphysics.
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Chapter Title
Lavoro e amore in Max Scheler. Per la reintegrazione del lavoro nell’intero dell’essere e della vita
Authors
Daniela Verducci
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.86
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2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
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2024
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
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2704-6478
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2704-5919