This essay examines the major categories and approaches of one of the finest works on anthropology in the late twentieth century: Max Scheler’s Man's Place in Nature (1927). We aim to show the bases of the phenomenological anthropology proposed by this Catholic philosopher, whose immediate antecedents were Husserl’s Logical Investigations regarding man-everyday world life correlations, the debate waged by phenomenology to face the incursion of psychology into the objective sciences domain, and the consolidation of several theories of evolution trying to supersede philosophical anthropology as the queen in the explanation of human phenomena. In such a chaotic context, Scheler radicalizes his thesis on the ‘I and the everyday world life’ correlation, and proposes an anthropology developed in a phenomenological spirit.