Ordo amoris como determinante del amor y odio en Max Scheler

Abstract

This article aims to emphasize that affective responses of human beings to reality (people and things) are constitutive of moral judgments from two perspectives: (a) an objective ordo amoris with normative functions; (b) a descriptive ordo amoris, which explains the variety of moral judgments. The philosophical problem consists in the fact that description of affectivity is usually examined by empirical sciences (history, psychology, ethnology, etc.) and is part of casuistry. But from the point of view of Max Scheler's phenomenology, it is possible to study this issue without the tendency to casuistry. In a similar way to logic and its dealing with fallacies, phenomenological axiology is able describe emotions seeking those elements that distort moral judgment.