Julian Young, Honorary Research Associate, University of Auckland, and Kenan Professor of Humanities, Emeritus Wake Forest University will speak on “Scheler, Nietzsche, Christian Love and Ressentiment.”

“Christian morality, according to Nietzsche, is ‘slave morality’, the product of the ‘ressentiment’ of the slaves of the Roman Empire against their oppressive masters. The Catholic phenomenologist Max Scheler, argues that while Nietzsche is wrong about the morality of ‘Christian love’ he is right about something into which Christian morality can easily degenerate which he calls ‘modern morality’. I argue that while Scheler is not entirely right about modern morality, he is not entirely wrong either.”