POL SCI 112C Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Proletariat
30 Apr 2019
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Single-minded devotion to some future state (ex. Any means to achieve it is justifiable and legitimate. This is the road to bad things like gulags, ethnic cleansing, destabilisation, etc. Weber thinks this ethic of ultimate values is not only naive, but diabolical. Weber wants to marry the ethic of responsibility with the animating forces of passion for a cause. The ethic shapes and guides the passion. He associates this due with maturity and sobriety. Politicians must recognise the violence than permeates mass politics, and use other, more mature, methods. But still need a vision to lead towards! By the end of politics as vocation , he starts to denounce all revolutions. Dictatorship of the proletariat is still a dictatorship. Essay about the value of social science. This happens as we know and manipulate more of the world through science. With the rise of reason and science, comes the very death of meaning itself. (nietzsche agrees)
