Man's vocation as a topic of Weber's thought

Weber's legacy: at the crossroads of traditions

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https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2021.01.096

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calling, personality, ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility, value and purpose oriented rationality, social action, morality

Abstract

The article explicates the significance of M. Weber’s works for understanding of calling as an important world view idea of the European culture. The author observes Weber’s analysis of forming of the notion of calling in the times of ancient Egypt state and Judaic captivity as well as in the Old Testament and its interpretations by M. Luther. Particularly significant for the understanding of social processes during the Reformation in Europe and then in America became Weber’s analysis of the transformation of the religious meaning of calling as “task” and “mission” of a man in the world into the motivation for a practical professional activity. The study shows the ways of implementation of Weber’s theory of social action and political leadership within the concept of calling. The internal collision of the experience of calling is explicated by the examples of charismatic leadership, responsibility of a politician and ethos of a scientist. Combination of affective motivation, value and target oriented rationality in the calling forms the problem for a decision, although this complexity is a driving force of the realization of calling by a person. The philosophical and theological substratum of the Weber’s concept of calling is his looking for the integration of temporal and eternal dimensions in human existence. Calling as an idea of postreformational European culture serves for finding and realization of the meaning of personal life as well as for legitimation of social action. Especially this idea grounds the possibility and necessity of conciliation of the ethics of conviction and the ethics of responsibility in individual as well as in social existence and morality.

Author Biography

Eugene Mulyarchuk

Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of Culture, Ethics and Aesthetics, H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 4, Triokhsviatytelska St., Kyiv, 01001

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2021-03-22

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Mulyarchuk, E. (2021). Man’s vocation as a topic of Weber’s thought: Weber’s legacy: at the crossroads of traditions. Filosofska Dumka, (1), 96–104. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2021.01.096

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