Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part Three)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mark, Wes, and Dylan reconvened for one more hour on Part I, "Fellow Feeling" (ch. 3-4) in The Nature of Sympathy (1913/1922).

We continue to try to figure out the razor's edge of "fellow feeling proper" that does not rely on the sympathizer identifying in any way and look into psychological and metaphysical ways that people can identify with others.

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0:00.0	We're listening to the partially examined life, episode 364, part three.
0:12.5	You did not think we're necessarily going to have a part three since episode 365 is also going to be on this book.
0:18.2	Max Scheler's The Nature of Sympathy, but we were jumping forward to
0:21.7	part two of the whole book for that episode, and we'd only assigned ourselves the first four
0:27.9	chapters of part one, and we really only got through about two and a half of them. So there's a lot
0:33.7	left to talk about, even though, of course, we've gotten it in summary to you already.
0:39.2	But, yeah, I think around page 40 in the middle of chapter 3 is, I thought, where we stopped.
0:45.5	I have us at 41, so we're close at least.
0:48.5	Somewhere around there.
0:49.8	So we're down to Seth, but the rest of us are here.
0:52.6	Although, Dylan, have you come down with a, you sound like a different person.
0:56.3	Have you come down with a cold?
0:58.8	I've had a chest thing for a week.
1:01.0	Well, we feel for you.
1:02.9	I'm feeling better, actually.
1:04.6	I had a chest thing like that recently, and so I sympathize.
1:09.5	No.
1:10.0	Anything wrong with that? Do you have any fellow feeling?ize. No. Anything wrong with that?
1:11.3	Do you have any fellow feeling?
1:13.5	Wrong.
1:14.7	I understand that, but yet I cruelly have suggested we do this recording anyway in
1:21.5	disregard.
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