CRI350H1 Lecture 2: Lecture-2-Part-2
28 Aug 2018
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Max weber: if you would inquire, inquire ye! . Temporal setting of this piece: the german revolution. A form of respect of others, abuse of authority. And vice versa: weber"s student and his political problems. We come from different places, are different kinds of people. In science as a vocation, weber weighed the benefits and detriments of choosing a career as an academic at a university who studies science or humanities. Weber probes the question "what is the value of science?" and focuses on the nature of ethics underpinning the scientific career. Science, to weber, gives methods of explanation and means of justifying a position, but it cannot explain why that position is worth holding in the first place; this is the task of philosophy. No science is free from suppositions, and the value of a science is lost when its suppositions are rejected.
