《Weber：Science as a Vocation》.pdf

Science as a Vocation by Max Weber Published as Wissenschaft als Beruf, Gesammlte Aufsaetze zur Wissenschaftslehre (Tubingen, 1922), pp. 524-55. Originally a speech at Munich University, 1918, published in 1919 by Duncker Humblodt, Munich. From H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (Translated and edited), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, pp. 129-156, New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. You wish me to speak about Science as a Vocation. Now, we political economists have a pedantic custom, which I should like to follow, of always beginning with the external conditions. In this case,