Scheler’s Anti-Representationalism: From Moral Illusions to Moral Facts

The aim of this paper is to show the role of utmost importance played by illusions in Scheler’s material ethics. In order to doing so, in the first section I briefly sketch out the various kinds of illusions discussed within Scheler’s philosophical project. In the second section I focus on his rejection of the idea that inner-perception boasts a privileged type of evidence respect to outer-perception; this claim allows to understand both the specific nature of his emotional cognitivism and to outline Scheler’s anti-representationalism in moral-field. Finally, in the third and concluding section I argue that Scheler’s criticism of illusion allows to rightly assess his specific account of value-ception.