THE VALUE OF WAR AND PEACE IN THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL THINKING OF MAX SCHELER

Abstract

The problem of peace has interested and concerned to the universal consciousness since its beginnings. However the known history is characterized by a large succession of armed conflicts that hasn’t even brought blinks of its uncontested triumph. Thus, between the ecumenical craving for peace and the opposite reality, we ask: Is it the idea of peace humanly possible? This essay tries to give an answer on this questions from the reflections of Max Scheler (1974-1928). Both writings that show with more detail his position to this problem, Der Genius des Krieges und der Deustche Krieg (1915) y Die Idee des ewigen Friedens und der Pazifismus (1927) respectively, they both offer elements that could grasp the actual experience of war, as well as the possibility of an absolute state of peace in the world.