Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen

It is well known that we owe Nietzsche the discovery of the emotive function of ressentiment, which he argues plays a constitutive role in the moral life of humans. However, Nietzsche did not provide a thorough analysis of ressentiment. It was Max Scheler who held a mirror up to the feeling of ressentiment. The essay "Ressentiment in the Structure of Morals" was first published in 1912. It belongs to a field of research that Max Scheler did not complete, although he was dedicated to it until the end of his life: the area of the "laws of meaning" of human emotional life. These studies are based on the view that the distinction between intellect and sensibility, between knowledge by insight and sensory perception, which was already accepted by the Greeks, does not accurately reflect our relationship to our fellow humans and the world, and that this distinction is an expression.