The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton

Author:David Wootton [Wootton, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780062199256
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-12-07T23:00:00+00:00

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The Disenchantment of the World

Thus the growing process of intellectualization and rationalization does not imply a growing understanding of the conditions under which we live. It means something quite different. It is the knowledge or the conviction that if only we wished to understand them we could do so at any time. It means that in principle, then, we are not ruled by mysterious, unpredictable forces, but that, on the contrary, we can in principle control everything by means of calculation. That in turns means the disenchantment of the world.

– Max Weber, ‘Science as a Vocation’ (1918)1

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