Erschienen in:
01.10.2019 | Editorial
Disenchantment and clinical ethics
verfasst von:
Henk ten Have, Bert Gordijn
Erschienen in:
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
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Ausgabe 4/2019
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Excerpt
In the last century, sociologist Max Weber formulated his famous thesis of the “disenchantment of the world” (Weber
1958, p. 133). With the expansion of modernity, traditional agricultural societies have been replaced by alternative economic and social arrangements. This new social order has encouraged the emergence of a novel type of human being. The historical process studied by Weber has produced an understanding of the world and all areas of human experience that is less mysterious and magical. The world has become knowable and predictable by humans (Weber
1958). …