The influence of Max Scheler on John Paul II’s (Karol Wojtyła’s) phenomenological approach to the importance of community: a comparative analysis
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2026-01-16
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Loneliness and seclusion affect many people in our society today, especially the elderly and students. The emphasis on individualism and rationalism has hidden our inherent communal and subjective nature. This is what Max Scheler and John Paul II speak of in their anthropology, and both use the phenomenological method. Both argue that intersubjectivism is possible, though they see this happening in different ways. Scheler comes to his conclusion with pure phenomenology, and applies this to his ethics, upon which John Paul II critiques that one could not come to a shared, objective ethics only using phenomenology. In this thesis, the phenomenology of community of Max Scheler and John Paul II will be examined, including a comparison between them, and an analysis of Scheler’s influence on John Paul II. Ultimately, it will be seen that both authors defend that the person is fundamentally a communal being.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen