Disenchantment, rationality and the modernity of Max Weber

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ID7095746
AuthorsAnthony J Carroll (Heythrop College, University of London, corresponding author), Akademia Ignatianum
Year2011
Volume16
Issue1
Pages117-137
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueForum Philosophicum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1426-1898 • E-ISSN: 2353-7043
PublisherPhilosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5840/forphil201116117
OpenAlexW2037248174
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited5

Following Aristotle's distinction between theoretical and practical rationality, Max Weber holds that beliefs about the world and actions within the world must follow procedures consistently and be appropriately formed if they are to count as rational. Here, I argue that Weber's account of theoretical and practical rationality, as disclosed through his conception of the disenchantment of the world, displays a confessional architecture consistently structured by a nineteenth century German Protestant outlook. I develop this thesis through a review of the concepts of rationality and disenchantment in Weber's major works and conclude that this conceptual framework depicts a Protestant account of modernity

Aesthetics · Disenchantment · Economics · Epistemology · Modernity · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Rationality · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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