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German politician, father of Alfred and Max Weber (1836–1897)
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Join the roomWilhelm Maximilian Weber[a] was a German lawyer, municipal official and National Liberal politician. He was the father of the social scientists Max and Alfred Weber.
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“The capacity to distinguish between empirical knowledge and value-judgments, and the fulfillment of the scientific duty to see the factual truth as well as the practical duty to stand up for our own ideals constitute the program to which we wish to adhere with ever increasing firmness.”
“"Rationalism" is a historical concept that contains within itself a world of contradictions.”
“Above all, as will be repeatedly apparent in the sections below, fundamental for our discussion is the investigation of the idea of a testifying to one's belief as the psychological point of origin for methodical ethics.”
“What interests us here is the assimilative power of the Hindu life order due to its legitimation of social rank.”
“No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time”
“The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the religion’s virtuosi to reject the world, especially its economic activities.”
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