Realizing moral values: on acting persons and moral values in Max Scheler's ethics

This article explores some aspects of how Max Scheler conceived of the relationship between persons and actions. The primary source to do so is SchelerU+2019s Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values, but it will also be observed that the concept of the person as an act-accomplishing being figures as a leitmotiv in SchelerU+2019s entire oeuvre: from the writings on sympathy and love to the late writings in which Scheler developed his controversial metaphysics.