It was Max Scheler who pointed out that our generation is characterized by the fact that man has become problematic to himself, and that he is aware of his problematic condition.¹ Scheler's central concern here is with the nature of man, with what continental thinkers call "philosophical anthropology." The problems of such an anthropology are connected with the basic structures of man's being. Such dimensions of human life as "emotion," "feeling," and "loving" presuppose a metaphysical grounding. Apart from the contingencies and ephemera of daily life, what are the immutable essentialities of mutable man?