 The transcendental presupposition of every cultural science lies not in our finding a certain culture or any "culture" in general to be valuable but rather in the fact that we are cultural beings, endowed with the capacity and the will to take a deliberate...  Evolution and Human Values - Page 41edited by - 1995 - 251 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Arthur Kleinman, Byron Good - Medical - 1985 - 560 pages
...in mood that is associated with an irrevocable loss. As self-conscious beings, humans are "endowed with the capacity and the will to take a deliberate...attitude towards the world and to lend it significance" (Weber 1949:81; emphasis in original). This attitude or stance, as in Schutz (1970), or perspective,... | |
 | David Kolb - Philosophy - 1986 - 334 pages
...presupposition of every cultural science lies ... in the fact that we are cultural beings, endowed with the capacity and the will to take a deliberate...attitude towards the world and to lend it significance" (Roth and Schluchter 1979, 73n). The Kantian echo is deliberate in this quote, but in opposition to... | |
 | Axel Honneth, Hans Joas - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 332 pages
...the other end of the spectrum we encounter its self-reflexive form: an attempt to place the ability to 'take a deliberate attitude towards the world and to lend it significance'45 at the centre of a theoretically articulate and research-oriented image of man and... | |
 | Daniel M. Hausman - Business & Economics - 1994 - 484 pages
...any "culture" in general to be valuable but rather in the fact that we are cultural beings, endowed with the capacity and the will to take a deliberate...attitude towards the world and to lend it significance. Whatever this significance may be, it will lead us to judge certain phenomena of human existence in... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - Philosophy - 2003 - 400 pages
...general to be valuable but rather in the fact that we are cultural beings, endowed with the capacity and will to take a deliberate attitude towards the world and to lend it significance. '"' Neo-Kantian Normlogik first postulated an ontological distinction between the physical world (the... | |
 | Howard L. Kaye - 220 pages
...of our modern cultures, while the genetic utilitarianism of the Wilsonians ignores those aspects of our personalities and cultures, such as our cruelty...world and ourselves in the process (Weber 1949, 81). Unfortunately, all too many social scientists and humanists have forgotten this as well (Wolfe 1993).... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...any "culture" in general to be valuable but rather in the fact that we are cultural beings, endowed with the capacity and the will to take a deliberate...attitude towards the world and to lend it significance. Whatever this significance may be, it will lead us to judge certain phenomena of human existence in... | |
 | Arun Sahay - History - 1998 - 160 pages
...presupposition of every cultural science lies ... in the fact that we are cultural beings, endowed with the capacity and the will to take a deliberate...attitude towards the world and to lend it significance. Whatever this significance may be, it will lead us to judge certain phenomena of human existence in... | |
 | Stephen W. Twing - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 232 pages
...or any 'culture' in general as valuable but rather in the fact that we are cultural beings, endowed with the capacity and the will to take a deliberate...attitude towards the world and to lend it significance." 14 Like those of Durkheim, Weber's cultural studies involved the study of religion. In perhaps his... | |
 | Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert Owen Keohane, Stephen D. Krasner - Business & Economics - 1999 - 444 pages
...expression to the distinctive attributes of social action and social order, namely, the human capacity and will "to take a deliberate attitude towards the world and to lend it significance."11 Thus, the task of interpreting the significance that social actors attribute to actions... | |
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