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Who wrote their doctoral thesis based on Max Scheler's system?

  • Emanuel Levinas

  • Pope John Paul II

  • Aristotle

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

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Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, wrote his doctoral thesis based on Max Scheler's system. He was a student of Scheler's at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His thesis was entitled "The Problem of the Foundation of Morality in the Philosophy of Max Scheler". In it, he argued that Scheler's system of values could provide a foundation for morality.
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