Plato and Max Scheler on the Affective World

After presenting Plato’s (mainly the Phaedrus) and Scheler’s (in his Formalism in Ethics ...) views on affectivity, differences and similarities between the two are listed. It turns out that Scheler’s model is closer to Plato’s than Scheler himself believed. Both of them were sympathetic to a hierarchical approach in regard to affectivity. Lastly, Scheler’s defective knowledge of Plato’s view on affectivity in the Formalism in Ethics ... is discussed.