PERSON-BEING, OR PERSON-BECOMING? ON THE MODE OF BEING OF THE PERSON IN MAX SCHELER'S PHENOMENOLOGY

Starting from the famous debate as to whether or not the person in Max Scheler's phenomenology is a substance, I propose to interpret the concept of personbeing as an "act-substance." In addition, in the light of the "ordo amoris" qua "act-substance," I further discuss the mode of being determining the person, namely "person-becoming," which is essentially connected to the "individual determination" and "self-love" of the person. And I suggest that, only via the "individual determination" and "self-love" of the person will "person-becoming" become possible. Fundamentally speaking, the most actual mode of being of the person is the dynamic "person-becoming" rather than some static "person-being."