POLI 231 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Antigone, Thomas Aquinas, Socrates

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 231
• Professor: Jacob Levy

Document Summary

At the end of his career, he lectured at the university of munich (end of ww1) The question of what a post-ww1 government should look like. 1919 germany started to look like a 1917 russia. Combines coercion and persuasion (violence and ideas) to define the state. Use of legitimate violence is monopolized by the state. Power, wealth seeking, sheer vanity not weber"s thoughts on politicians he does not believe that politicians are selfish people. Corporation of students who hired teachers in medieval. Change in the late 1800s the role of a scholar became both being a student and a teacher discover new knowledge in the process. Weber asks what it means to have this space be overrun by bureaucracy and ego. Must make a return to belief and organization of an institution - Legitimacy: patrimonial - customary, most are run this way, charismatic - follower of persuasion, legal - through rules and organization.