The value judgment controversy (German: ''Werturteilsstreit'') is a ''
Methodenstreit'', a quarrel in German
sociology
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and
economics
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, around the question whether the
social sciences
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are a normative obligatory statement in politics and its measures applied in political actions, and whether their measures can be justified scientifically.
Hans Albert
Hans Albert (; 8 February 1921 24 October 2023) was a German philosopher. He was professor of social sciences at the University of Mannheim from 1963, and remained at the university until 1989. His fields of research were social sciences and g ...
: ''Ökonomische Ideologie und politische Theorie'', Göttingen 1972. p. 10.
The internecine quarrel took place in the years before World War I, between the members of the ''
Verein für Socialpolitik
The (; literally: Association for Social Policy), or the German Economic Association, is a society of economists in the German language, German-speaking area.
History
The was founded in Eisenach in 1872 as a response to the "social question ...
''; the primary antagonists were
Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (; ; 21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German Sociology, sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economy, political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sc ...
,
Werner Sombart Werner may refer to:
People
* Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name
Fictional characters
* Werner (comics), a German comic book character
* Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Rai ...
, and
Gustav Schmoller.
The ''Zweite Werturteilsstreit''better known as ''
Positivismusstreit'' was the debate between the supporters of ''
Kritische Theorie'' and those of ''
Kritischer Rationalismus'' during the 1960s .
References
Further reading
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Hans Albert
Hans Albert (; 8 February 1921 24 October 2023) was a German philosopher. He was professor of social sciences at the University of Mannheim from 1963, and remained at the university until 1989. His fields of research were social sciences and g ...
and
Ernst Topitsch (editor) – ''Werturteilsstreit'' –, Darmstadt 1971
* ''Äußerungen zur Werturteilsdiskussion im Ausschuß des Vereins für Socialpolitik.'' – printed as manuscript 1913.
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John Dewey
John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and Education reform, educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
The overridi ...
– ''Logik. Die Theorie der Forschung'' –, 1986 (Published in German 2002 as "Sozialforschung")
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Christian von Ferber – ''Der Werturteilsstreit 1909–1959. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Interpretation.'' – In: Ernst Topitsch (editor) – ''Logik der Sozialwissenschaften.'' – , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln, 8. Auflage 1972, or
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Dirk Kaesler – ''Einführung in das Studium Max Webers'' –, München 1979
* Dieter Lindenlaub – ''Richtungskämpfe im Verein für Socialpolitik. Wissenschaft und Sozialpolitik im Kaiserreich vornehmlich vom Beginn des “Neuen Kurses“ bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges (1890–1914)'' –, part I + II., Wiesbaden 1967 (Beihefte zur Vierteljahresschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Nr. 52/53)
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Jürgen Mittelstraß – ''Werturteilsstreit'' –, in: ''Enzyklopädie: Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie'', 1996
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Wolfgang Schluchter – ''Wertfreiheit und Verantwortungsethik'' –, Tübingen 1971
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Gustav von Schmoller
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Gustav Friedrich (after 1908: von) Schmoller (; 24 June 1838 – 27 June 1917) was the leader of the "younger" German historical school of economics.
He was a leading ''Sozialpolitiker'' (more derisively, ''Kathedersozialist'', "Socialist of ...
– ''Die Volkswirtschaft, die Volkswirtschaftslehre und ihre Methode'', 1893 (Frankfurt am Main 1949)
* ''Verhandlungen des Vereins für Socialpolitik in Wien, 1909'' –, Leipzig 1910. (Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Band 132)
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Max Weber
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and
Johannes F. Winckelmann (editor) – ''Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre'' -, Tübingen 1988,
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