TITLE:
Ends and Means
AUTHORS:
Jan-Erik Lane
KEYWORDS:
Dawkins, Searle, Weber, Wilson
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.11 No.1,
February
26,
2021
ABSTRACT: The
social sciences in a wide sense and the Humanities share one major focus,
namely the acting person. The greatest social scientist in modern times argued that human
action had to modelled as purposeful, driven by means and ends (Weber, 2012). Is Max Weber now old fashioned?