This paper attempts to demonstrate Max Scheler’s anticipation of and continued relevance to a burgeoning trend of essence-based accounts of modality, chief among them being Kit Fine’s landmark 1994 “Essence and Modality.” I argue that Scheler’s account of the material a priori not only anticipates the picture of essence-based modality suggested by Fine, but moreover offers resources with the potential to resolve key challenges for the Finean program. In particular, Fine’s account runs into problems in explaining how formal logical necessities are to be grounded in essences, challenges that put pressure on the essentialist to adopt a non-propositional account of the nature of logical principles. I argue that one such account can be found in Scheler’s notion of the material a priori, according to which all necessary propositional truth is grounded in a realm of experientially given yet a priori "phenomenological facts." After showing the general rapprochement between Scheler’s and Fine’s accounts of regional modality, I then turn to address Scheler’s attempt to ground formal logical principles in essences. On Scheler’s picture, propositions expressing formal logical truths are true in virtue of the domain of essences in two senses: (i) In terms of what Scheler calls objective necessity, they are true insofar as they coincide with the essential facts and interconnections shared by all possible regions of being; (ii) In terms of what he calls subjective necessity, they are true in virtue of these same essential facts and interconnections insofar as they have become “functionalized” into law-like patterns of cognition.

本文试图证明 Max Scherer 对基于本质的情态描述的新兴趋势的预期和持续相关性，其中主要是 Kit Fine 1994 年具有里程碑意义的“本质和情态”。我认为，舍勒对材料的先验说明不仅预测了 Fine 提出的基于本质的模态图景，而且还提供了具有解决 Finean 计划关键挑战的潜力的资源。特别是，Fine 的解释在解释形式逻辑必然性如何以本质为基础时遇到了问题，这些挑战对本质主义者施加了压力，要求他们对逻辑原则的性质采取非命题的解释。我认为在舍勒关于先验材料的概念中可以找到一个这样的解释，根据它，所有必要的命题真理都建立在经验给定但先验的“现象学事实”的领域中。在展示了舍勒和法恩对区域形态的描述之间的一般和解之后，我接着讨论舍勒试图将形式逻辑原则建立在本质上的尝试。在舍勒的画中，表达形式逻辑真理的命题在两种意义上的本质领域是真实的：（i）就舍勒所说的客观必然性而言，它们是真实的，因为它们与所有人共享的本质事实和相互联系一致。可能的存在区域；(ii) 就他所谓的主观必然性而言，由于这些相同的基本事实和相互联系，它们是正确的，因为它们已经“功能化”为类似法律的认知模式。