On feeling, knowing, and valuing

"Max Scheler, whose life spanned the years 1874-1928, was acclaimed in Europe after the First World War as one of the leading minds of the modern age and Germany's most brilliant thinker-no mean praise considering the caliber of his German contemporaries, such as Troeltsch, Sombart, Meinecke, and, above all, Max Weber, with whom he was being compared."