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I have enjoyed Weiß’s paper as well as his earlier work on Weber, and I do not find much with which to disagree. There are, however, three points in the paper that I want to take exception to. They concern objectively-corrected rationality, value-rationality and the relation between rationality and understandability.
My work on Weber is part of a major project on Husserl’s phenomenology which is currently supported by the American Council of Learned Societies. I gratefully acknowledge this support.
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Føllesdal, D. (1985). Value-Rationality in Weber. In: Seebass, G., Tuomela, R. (eds) Social Action. Theory and Decision Library, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5263-8_17
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