Meaningful Life In A Disenchanted World: Rational Science and Ethical Responsibility: (An Interpretation of Max Weber)

Rational science has played a major role in the disenchantment process that constitutes the overriding religio-cultural problematic of modernity. But science is at the same time itself a product of disenchantment. Thus science cannot provide a criterion for ethical action independent of the times, p...

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Authors: Abramowski, Günter (Author) ; Moore, Larry W. (Author) ; Swatos, William H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1982
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1982, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 121-134
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