Excellent demonstration how thinking should work before descision making.

Excellent demonstration how thinking should work before descision making.  Read Less

Having studied the german original and later taught the vocation lectures many years ago, still i decided to reread them in a n...  Read More

Having studied the german original and later taught the vocation lectures many years ago, still i decided to reread them in a new and much improved translation.  Read Less

In particular relevant for our period are, inter alia, the following qualities which weber demands from those wishing to be pol...  Read More

In particular relevant for our period are, inter alia, the following qualities which weber demands from those wishing to be political leaders: living for politics and not from it; being fully committed to politics as a "vocation," including in the sense of "calling;" acting according to an ethics of responsibility for consequences, in some relation with an "ethics of commitment," making all of political leadership into an ethical endeavor; being fully mature, in the sense of ability "to scrutinize the realities of life ruthlessly, to withstand them, and to measure up to them inwardly (page 91); understanding the crucial importance of power and force; taking "distance" from issues and oneself; and, on important issues, "reaching the point where he says, `here i stand, i can do no other'" (page 92).  Read Less

These and other insights make the politics as a vocation text much superior to the vast majority of modern books on the require...  Read More

These and other insights make the politics as a vocation text much superior to the vast majority of modern books on the requirements of political leadership.  Read Less