Werturteilsstreit

The Werturteilsstreit (German for "value judgment dispute") describes a Methodenstreit, a quarrel in German sociology and economics around the question, whether the social sciences is a normative obligatory statement in politics and its measures applied in political actions, and whether their measures can be justified scientifically. ^[1]

The quarrel took place in the years before WWI, between the members of the Verein für Socialpolitik. Main opponents were Max Weber, Werner Sombart and Gustav Schmoller.

The Zweiter Werturteilsstreit is the debate between the supporter of the Kritische Theorie and the Kritischer Rationalismus during the 1960s — better known as Positivismusstreit.

Literature

Hans Albert & Ernst Topitsch (editor) - Werturteilsstreit -, Darmstadt 1971
Äußerungen zur Werturteilsdiskussion im Ausschuß des Vereins für Socialpolitik. - printed as manuscript 1913.
John Dewey - Logik. Die Theorie der Forschung -, 1986 (Published in German 2002 as "Sozialforschung")
Christian von Ferber - Der Werturteilsstreit 1909-1959. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Interpretation. - In: Ernst Topitsch (editor) - Logik der Sozialwissenschaften. - , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln, 8. Auflage 1972, ISBN 3-462-00405-0 or ISBN 3-462-00406-9
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)
Jürgen Mittelstraß - Werturteilsstreit -, in: Enzyklopädie: Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, 1996
Wolfgang Schluchter - Wertfreiheit und Verantwortungsethik -, Tübingen 1971
Gustav von Schmoller - 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)
Max Weber & Johannes F. Winckelmann (editor) - Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre -, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-16-845373-0

References

^ Hans Albert: Ökonomische Ideologie und politische Theorie, Göttingen 1972. S.10

Positivism

Positivist
perspectives

Declinations

Legal positivism
Logical positivism within Analytic philosophy
Positivist school
Postpositivism
Sociological positivism
Machian positivism (Empirio-criticism)
Rankean historical positivism
Positivism in international relations
Polish positivism
Russian positivism (Empiriomonism)

Main concepts

Antitheses

Debate

Related debates over method	Methodenstreit of economics (1890s) Werturteilsstreit (1909) Positivismusstreit (1960s) Science Wars (1990s)

Contributions	The Course in Positive Philosophy (1830) A General View of Positivism (1848) The Analysis of Sensations (1886) The Logic of Modern Physics (1927) Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) The Two Cultures (1959) The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)

Proponents	Richard Avenarius Auguste Comte Émile Durkheim Berlin Circle Vienna Circle

Criticism	Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1909) History and Class Consciousness (1923) The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) The Poverty of Historicism (1936) World Hypotheses (1942) Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) Truth and Method (1960) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) Conjectures and Refutations (1963) One-Dimensional Man (1964) Knowledge and Human Interests (1968) The Poverty of Theory (1978) The Scientific Image (1980) The Rhetoric of Economics (1986)

Critics	Theodor W. Adorno Gaston Bachelard Mario Bunge Wilhelm Dilthey Paul Feyerabend Hans-Georg Gadamer Thomas Kuhn György Lukács Karl Popper Willard Van Orman Quine Max Weber

Contended concepts	Knowledge Phronesis Truth Verstehen

Related paradigm
shifts in the history
of science

Non-Euclidean geometry (1830s)
Heisenberg uncertainty principle (1927)

Categories

German words and phrases

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