The Axiological Memory of Max Weber. (September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Râmbu, Nicolae
• Is Part Of: Journal of human values. Volume 23:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 193
• Page End: 199
• Publication Date: 2017-09
• Subjects: Sciences of culture -- axiological memory -- idea of value; Management -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Social values -- Periodicals; Business ethics -- Periodicals; 303.4
• DOI: 10.1177/0971685817713281
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0971-6858

Abstract

Although it is been more than a century since the appearance of Max Weber's famous essay about the objective character of knowledge in the field of social and political sciences, it still continues to attract the interest of researchers in the various cultural sciences. There is a whole secondary literature dedicated to concepts that Weber has not defined clearly enough, such as Idealtypus [ideal type], historisches Individuum [historical individual], Wertbeziehung [value-relation] or Werturteilsfreiheit [the freedom from value- judgement] (Oakes, 1990 ). Our contribution falls into this category; since the phrase 'axiological memory' appears nowhere in Weber's work, the concept itself is present, especially in his essays dedicated to methodology in the social and political sciences. As Guy Oakes noted, Weber did not always endeavour to argue his thesis rigorously, thus leaving ample room for the interpretation and development of his ideas.