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| Interest: Interest refers to the inclination, motivation or benefit that a person or group has in something. It can include personal preferences as well as involvement in or pursuit of a particular goal or topic that is important or beneficial to the individual._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Max Weber on Interest - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas III 264 Interest/Weber/Habermas: Weber imagines the transposition of culturally stored knowledge into the lifestyle of individuals and groups, into social forms of life as a transfer between ideas and interests. Material and immaterial interests correspond to needs and contexts of meaning in which the"cultural people" stand. >Ideas, >Culture, >Cultural tradition, >Culture shift, >Society, >Community. III 265 Talcott Parsons/Habermas: Parsons continues this later: social systems of action or "life orders" integrate both ideas and interests in such a way that they order legitimate chances of satisfying material and immaterial interests. >Action systems. Habermas: the penetration of ideas and interests serves to regulate the appropriation of material and immaterial goods and to anchor this regulation in the motives and value orientations of those concerned in such a way that there is a sufficient chance of average compliance with the relevant standards. >Norms._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Weber I M. Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - engl. trnsl. 1930 German Edition: Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus München 2013 Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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