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Ends and Means
Emeritus, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Open Journal of Philosophy·Volume 11 (2020)·Pages 211–214·Published 18 December 2020·DOI10.4236/ojpp.2021.111016
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Abstract
The social sciences in a wide sense and the Humanities share one major focus, namely the acting person. The greatest social scientist in modern times argued that human action had to modelled as purposeful, driven by means and ends (Weber, 2012) . Is Max Weber now old fashioned?
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