![]() Worse still, the upshot of technical progress is a disenchanted world. Weber’s advice to the would-be scientist was, more or less, “suck it up.” The scientist’s vocation lies in pursuing truth, knowing that the fate of her work is to be superseded. ![]() His embrace of specialized knowledge-divorced from ethics, politics, and the search for meaning-portrays the advance of science as planned obsolescence. It’s hard to imagine that the students were uplifted by Weber’s lecture. IN NOVEMBER 1917, a group of left-leaning students at the University of Munich invited sociologist Max Weber to lecture on “Science as a Vocation.” They were troubled by the state of the academy in a time of increasing specialization, subject to distorting influences, both economic and political. ![]()
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