SCS 1160 Lecture : Weber 2.docx
Document Summary
Missing a real democracy and any sense of the supernatural in a disenchanted world. Wanting more knowledge and to know everything which we cannot. Democracy required getting rid of the important people and their rules, and in place of that older rule we put bureaucracy, and create new elites the bureaucrats. Formal rationality: what we are good at in bureaucracy. We can do justice according to the rules; it makes sense to internal logic. Within the system your in it holds everything together. Substantive rationality: something that can be formally rational can be substantively irrational. Democracy requires rationalization and getting rid of bureaucracy. Political problems: we cannot decide based on rationality on what government system to have. Being a scientist means sacrificing your life to the quest of increasing our understanding of the world but we will never see the fully completed results. We want other people to know more than we know.