La esencia y las formas del amor según Max Scheler

Abstract

The understanding of love as a movement towards higher values is inspired in the central case of love: love between personal beings. Despite its undeniable merits, Scheler’s account of this kind of love does not sufficiently explain how the uniqueness of the beloved is given to the person who loves. Moreover, his view wrongly interprets spiritual love as love of the sacred and considers the amor amicitiae as a straightforward case of psychic love.