Strategies of Intelligibility and Giving Meaning:: Limits between Theoretical and Practical Rationality
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Max Weber, rationalization, demystification, action, valuesCopyright (c) 2015 Manuel Orozco Pérez
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Abstract
In this paper we address two fundamental problems running through the history of philosophy: the strategies regarding the intelligibility of the unknown and ungovernable, and the problem of giving meaning. We approach these two issues using Max Weber’s analysis of modern rationality. Our methodological approach will be Weber’s own, based on his ideal types. We will proceed by setting parameters and criteria in (and from) his work that may not reflect reality as such, but will serve to address the problems that concern us here.
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