Politics as a vocation
by Max Weber · first published 1965
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…into accepting the need for their existence in the first place. Before proselytizing the dissolution of law enforcement, perhaps one ought to spend time researching the basics of sociology. Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation is probably a good place to start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_as_a_Vocation
on “Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage” ↗…relations theory, the Realist tradition of thinkers (Machiavelli, Hobbes, E.H. Carr, Morgenthau among many others) associate power and consequentialist thinking. It was stated most clearly by Weber in the Politics as a Vocation lecture, where he contrasts the ethic of responsibility (consequences) to the ethic of conviction (deontological). Weber's Realism favors an ethic of responsibility against the more idealist thinkers…
on “Does power influence moral thinking?” ↗It reminds me of German sociologist Max Weber's famous passage in his essay "Politics as a Vocation" (1919): "We must be clear about the fact that all ethically oriented conduct may be guided by one of two fundamentally differing and irreconcilably opposed maxims: conduct can be oriented to an 'ethic…
on “Nedstarkism” ↗…presidents ought to do (a "deontological" ethic). But politics does not work that way. Max Weber contrasted the (deontological) "ethic of ultimate ends" with the "ethic of responsibility" in his essay "Politics as a Vocation," which I urge you to read. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/ethos/Weber-vocation.pdf Responsibility is a different ethical standard than what individuals on their own would be held to. And what…
on “Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying” ↗…Weber. However, he stated it as Today, however, we have to say that a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Politics as a Vocation. http://fs2.american.edu/dfagel/www/class%20readings/weber/po...
on “SEC Charges Rothenberg Ventures in Fraudulent Scheme” ↗It's from Weber. Here's the relevant paragraph of Politics as a Vocation: > 'Every state is founded on force,' said Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk. That is indeed right. If no social institutions existed which knew the use of violence, then the concept of 'state' would be eliminated,…
on “Free Markets Don’t Buy Peace” ↗