Categories "the divine" and "the holy" in M. Scheler's project of essential phenomenology of religion
The paper examines significance of categories “the divine” and “the holy” for Scheler's project of essential phenomenology of religion which he presented in the collection “On the eternal in man”. Firstly relations of the original program to the study of classical phenomenology of religion (R. Otto above all other representatives) and to the phenomenological philosophy are demonstrated. Secondly an attention is paid to specific aspects of Scheler's phenomenology of religion: the description of the phenomenon of the “divine”, which founds the religious, and the theory of religious act. As a result it becomes possible to suggest, that the category of “the holy” is of a main significance for the thought of the author of “Formalismus in der Ethik” and “Vom Ewigenim Menschen”.