Max Weber

Name: The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization
ISBN: 9781439188873

Economist

1864-04-21

Books by Max Weber

The City
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The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization
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Quotes by Max Weber

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.
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As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.
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The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.
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It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.
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Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today.
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Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.
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Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: "Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: What shall we do and how shall we live?' That science does not give an answer to this is indisputable. The only question that remains is the sense in which science gives "no' answer, and whether or not science might yet be of use to the one who puts the question correctly.
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The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.
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The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.
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It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.
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... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.
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Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today.
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The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.
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Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.
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Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: "Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: What shall we do and how shall we live?' That science does not give an answer to this is indisputable. The only question that remains is the sense in which science gives "no' answer, and whether or not science might yet be of use to the one who puts the question correctly.
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As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
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A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
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