C***r 发帖数: 759 | 1 Causality and Probability
It is sometimes argued that, in tune with the German
idealistic tradition, Weber rejected the notion of causality
in human affairs. This is emphatically not the case.
Weber firmly believed in both historical and sociological
causality, but--and this may have given rise to
misunderstandings--he expressed causality in terms of
probability. Such stress on chance or probability, however,
has nothing to do with an insistence on free will or the
unpredictability of human beha |
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