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01.12.2013 | Symposium: Facts, Values, and Social Science

Weber’s Social Space of Reasons

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There is a curiously Nietzschean vein in Philip Gorski’s call to remoralize social sciences by way of Aristotle – ‘curious’ because Gorski chides Max Weber for irrationalist Nietzschean tendencies; ‘Nietzschean,’ in echoes of Beyond Good & Evil in his demand to go beyond the fact/value distinction, and in the dialogue he suggests between social sciences and moral philosophy. Rather than measuring society against universal standards of justice, liberty, or equality, Gorski asks whether it offers opportunities for human flourishing. This aligns him with growing strands in moral philosophy that, spurred by Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral Philosophy,’ draw on classical Greek notions of eudaimonia, signifying a well-being that embodies maximum development of human potentialities: a good society allows fulfilment of one’s telos.¹ Gorski favours an ethically-naturalist neo-Aristotelian version: social sciences could identify ‘biologically-grounded capabilities’ empirically and assess whether society fosters them. …

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Titel: Weber’s Social Space of Reasons
verfasst von: Richard Westerman
Publikationsdatum: 01.12.2013
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Society / Ausgabe 6/2013
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-013-9714-5

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