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On the level of normative political philosophy, Scheler not only criticizes “individualism” in a familiar sense, but also rejects “universalism”. But then he develops the “third way” of “solidarism” as different from both individualism and universalism. Solidarism is fundamentally a kind of value-personalism in its phenomenological essence. It is to be founded both upon Scheler’s distinction between the individual person (Einzelperson) and the collective person (Gesamtperson), and upon “a theory of all possible essential social units”. Fundamentally, the so-called “third way” is first of all the “principle” of a phenomenological “meta-sociology” and of a “meta-ethical-politics”, but not a concrete project for the development of social history.