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The concept of “axiological rationality” (my translation of Wertrationalität) is possibly one of the most difficult of all the concepts Weber put on the market.
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W. Hennis: Max Webers Fragestellung, Tübingen (J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck]) 1987.
W. J. Mommsen: Max Weber und die deutsche Politik, 1890–1920, Tübingen (J.C.B. Mohr) 1959 or E. Fleischmann: “De Weber à Nietzsche”, Archives européennes de sociologie, 5, 2 (1964), pp. 190-238, go to far when they seem to draw from Nietzsche’s influence on Weber and from the idea that science should be value free, the idea that to him, values would be irrational.
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I lean here on my book R. Boudon: Le juste et le vrai, Paris (Fayard) 1995.
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I follow here P. Duhem: Le système du monde, Paris (Hermann et Cie) 1954, tome 1, pp. 371–372: “Aucun corps inanimé ne peut être en mouvement s’il n’est soumis à l’action d’un moteur qui soit distinct de lui et extérieur à lui; il faut que ce moteur, pendant toute la durée du mouvement, lui soit constamment appliqué, soit sans cesse en contact avec lui”.
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Boudon, R. (1997). The Present Relevance of Max Weber’s Wertrationalität (Value Rationality). In: Koslowski, P. (eds) Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethics, and Economics in the Newer Historical School. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59095-5_1
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