Maximilian Karl Emil Weber
1864-1920 · Human Sciences · Renowned
Weber trained as an economist and jurist and helped found modern sociology alongside Durkheim. He argued that centuries of intellectual work left people believing anything can be mastered by calculation if they care to try, and that the world went disenchanted as a result. Questions about how to live fell to warring values with no umpire. Science hands you technique, and a clear view of what a stand will cost, never which god to serve.
Signature
The position Weber is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Meaning
- leans Constructed
- Good and Evil
- Moral Tragedy
Positions on the 4 axes the sources answer
- Meaning
- leans Constructed (17 on a 0–100 scale from Constructed to Inherent)
- Order
- mildly between Vertical and Horizontal (45 on a 0–100 scale from Vertical to Horizontal)
- Truth
- leans Objective (75 on a 0–100 scale from Subjective to Objective)
- Ignorance
- leans Bondage (25 on a 0–100 scale from Bondage to Bliss)
16 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Weber refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Government
- Parliamentary System
What is your ideal form of government? - Good and Evil
- Moral Tragedy
What is the fundamental nature of good and evil? - End of Things
- Open Future
What is the ultimate end of all things? - Human Nature
- Symbol-Maker
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- Nation
What is your primary bond and loyalty?