“... As Weber suggests, once science is employed to justify and enact ideal values, especially through the actions of an elite few (the academy), particular values, in this case the idea of what is 'natural', are cast into an objectively valid and legitimate form, and thus appear as being beyond critique. And at this point Weber rightly warns that science, contrary to Durkheim's belief, is not both cognitive and moral in nature, for it rests upon a designation of authority, and may, especially if used beyond its own limits, give rise to new means of domination.” ScienceReligionPoliticsEthicsMorals Book:Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalisation Versus Re-enchantment Source: Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalisation Versus Re-enchantment
“... In view of the violence of political power responsibility must always prevail. The only possible synthesis between conviction and responsibility is thus one in which passion is subordinated to responsibility, so that political responsibility is the primary value to be pursued with passion, thereby engendering what H. H. Bruun terms a 'responsible ethic of conviction.' Weber states: 'To be sure, mere passion, however genuinely felt, is not enough. It does not make a politician, unless passion as devotion to a "cause" also makes responsibility to this cause the guiding star of action.” PoliticsResponsibilityPoliticiansEmotional Decisions Book:Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalisation Versus Re-enchantment Source: Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalisation Versus Re-enchantment