Max Weber On the Methodology of the Social Sciences
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Formally, it had exactly the same highly rational structure as many of the most important developments in modern therapy. But we do not THE MEANING OF "ETHICAL NEUTRALITY" 35 look on these priestly magical therapies as "progress" towards a "cor- rect" mode of action as contrasted with rule-of-thumb empiricism. Furthermore, not every "progressive" step in the use of "correct" means is achieved by "progress" in subjective rationality. An increase in subjectively rational conduct can lead to objec...tively more "effi- cient" conduct but it is not inevitable. But [if, in a single case, the proposition is correct that measure x is, let us say, the only means of attaining the result y^ and if this proposition — which is empir- ically establishable — is consciously used by people for the orientation of their activity to attain the result y, then their conduct is oriented in a "technically correct" manner. If any aspect of human conduct (of any sort whatsoever) is oriented in a technically more correct manner than it was previously, technical progress cxists.
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