Reforming medicine, rethinking subjectivity: Viktor von Weizsäcker and the philosophical anthropology of Max Scheler

At the core of this essay there is the reflection on the subjectivity on which Viktor von Weizsäcker bases his medical reform and his project of a medicine that treat the “whole man”. As it emerges already from his first writings, the comparison with the Max Scheler's philosophical anthropology is an essential instrument of this reflection. Examining some specific aspects of this comparison between Weizsäcker and Scheler, we will try to bring out the feature of the Weizsäcker's subjectivity idea that distinguishes his medical anthropology as discipline which makes an epistemological change, focusing primarily on the encounter and the relationship (between subject and object, psyche and body, physician and patient).