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Record W1993686701 · doi:10.1177/14687950122232576

Max Weber’s Disenchantment

2001· article· en· W1993686701 on OpenAlex
Malcolm H. MacKinnon

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Classical Sociology · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWeber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDisenchantmentPredestinationPhilosophyDeterminismGloryEpistemologyCapitalismNegationIrrational numberFree willDoctrineLibertarianismTheologyLawMathematicsPolitical science

Abstract

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Weber’s disenchantment is that Kant’s reason fails to deliver on the promise. Kant’s promise is that reason in history will produce ‘progress’, produce ever greater quantities of reason culminating in a ‘rational kingdom of ends’. Weber’s Puritan studies put this claim to the test. They do so through Kant and Channing, who see the providential ‘determinism’ of predestination as an insult to reason and ‘freedom’. Calvinists respond to predestination’s insult with the ‘free force’ of ‘ideas’ - with reason, and with ‘good works in vocation’ for God’s glory. Yet this response fails to produce the rational-ascetic utopia that Kant predicts, and leads instead to the material sensuality of capitalism. Reason is thus irrational because it creates the capitalist conditions of its own negation, because, in short, freedom creates determinism.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.607
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.361
Teacher spread0.315 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it