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French term or phrase:	éthique de la conviction
English translation:	ethic of conviction
Entered by:	xxxcaroail

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4:43pm May 19, 2002

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Social Sciences - Philosophy / Ethics, Morals

French term or phrase: éthique de la conviction

terme tiré de deux discours par Max Weber (sociologue allemand) recueillis en français (traduits) sous le titre unique "Le Savant et le Politique" (deux discours dont les titres allemands sont respectivement Politik als Beruf et Wissenschaft als Beruf. La phrase entière est ... "Toute activité orientée selon l'éthique peut être subordonnée à deux maximes totalement opposées. Elle peut s'orienter selon une éthique de la responsabilité ou selon une éthique de la conviction". Ethique de la responsabilité se traduit par "ethic of responsibility" ... Help I am not a sociologist (but am learning fast).

xxxcaroail

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United Kingdom

ethic of conviction

Explanation:
See below, Caroline:

Vaknummer A744 - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... of Max Weber's Politics as Vocation, the tension between an ethic of conviction and
an ethic of responsibility will be clarified. Finally attention goes to the ...
cwisdb.cc.kuleuven.ac.be/oo-bin/ searchvaknr.pl?vaknr=A744 - 8k - En caché - Páginas similares

pstreading1 - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... How and why did Weber distinguish between the ethic
of conviction and the ethic of responsibility? ...
www.warwick.ac.uk/~sysao/pstreading1.htm - 9k - En caché - Páginas similares

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Note added at 2002-05-19 16:49:47 (GMT)
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Max Weber’s distinction in “Politics as a Vocation” between the ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility is best understood as a distinction between mutually exclusive ethical worldviews. Interpretations that correlate the two ethics with Weber\'s distinction between value-rational social action and instrumental-rational social action are misleading since Weber assumes that both types of rational social action are present in both ethics. The ethic of conviction recognizes a given hierarchy of values as the context for moral endeavor. The ethic of responsibility acknowledges value obligations, but assumes the absence of any given hierarchy of values and the inevitability of value conflict as the context for moral endeavor. When interpreted in the context of his multilayered understanding of value conflict, Weber’s ethic of responsibility emerges as a coherent ethical perspective.
http://www.fsu.edu/~religion/jre/arc/27-3/407.html

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Fernando Muela
Spain

Note from asker to answerer

Thank you Fernando M - You were quick off the mark so I chose your answer, although Sam D and DPolice also had same references as you. Thank you also to them for kindly answering. Greatly appreciated and I have noted the Websites etc for future ref. Cheers.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

ethic of conviction

Endre Both

4 +1

ethics of commitment

Elisabeth Ghysels

4 +1

ethic of conviction

Fernando Muela

ethic of conviction

DPolice

ethic of conviction

Sam D

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2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

ethic of conviction

Explanation:
:-)

Reference: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~sysao/pstreading1.htm

Endre Both
Germany
Native speaker of:

German,

Hungarian

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

ethic of conviction

Explanation:
See below, Caroline:

Vaknummer A744 - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... of Max Weber's Politics as Vocation, the tension between an ethic of conviction and
an ethic of responsibility will be clarified. Finally attention goes to the ...
cwisdb.cc.kuleuven.ac.be/oo-bin/ searchvaknr.pl?vaknr=A744 - 8k - En caché - Páginas similares

pstreading1 - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... How and why did Weber distinguish between the ethic
of conviction and the ethic of responsibility? ...
www.warwick.ac.uk/~sysao/pstreading1.htm - 9k - En caché - Páginas similares

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Note added at 2002-05-19 16:49:47 (GMT)
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Max Weber’s distinction in “Politics as a Vocation” between the ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility is best understood as a distinction between mutually exclusive ethical worldviews. Interpretations that correlate the two ethics with Weber\'s distinction between value-rational social action and instrumental-rational social action are misleading since Weber assumes that both types of rational social action are present in both ethics. The ethic of conviction recognizes a given hierarchy of values as the context for moral endeavor. The ethic of responsibility acknowledges value obligations, but assumes the absence of any given hierarchy of values and the inevitability of value conflict as the context for moral endeavor. When interpreted in the context of his multilayered understanding of value conflict, Weber’s ethic of responsibility emerges as a coherent ethical perspective.
http://www.fsu.edu/~religion/jre/arc/27-3/407.html

Fernando Muela
Spain
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Note from asker to answerer

5 mins confidence:

ethic of conviction

Explanation:
Plenty of references for this:

Max Weber’s distinction in “Politics as a Vocation” between the ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility is best understood as a distinction between mutually exclusive ethical worldviews. Interpretations that correlate the two ethics with Weber's distinction between value-rational social action and instrumental-rational social action are misleading since Weber assumes that both types of rational social action are present in both ethics. The ethic of conviction recognizes a given hierarchy of values as the context for moral endeavor. The ethic of responsibility acknowledges value obligations, but assumes the absence of any given hierarchy of values and the inevitability of value conflict as the context for moral endeavor. When interpreted in the context of his multilayered understanding of value conflict, Weber’s ethic of responsibility emerges as a coherent ethical perspective.

http://www.fsu.edu/~religion/jre/arc/27-3/407.html

Good luck

Sam D
United Kingdom
Native speaker of:

English

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

ethics of commitment

Explanation:
Greetings,

Nikolaus

Reference: http://www.criticism.com/md/weber1.html

Elisabeth Ghysels
Belgium

Note from asker to answerer

commitment would be "engagement" in French but thanks anyway

The asker has declined this answer
Comment: commitment would be "engagement" in French but thanks anyway

22 mins confidence:

ethic of conviction

Explanation:
Max Weber’s distinction in “Politics as a Vocation” between the ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility is best understood as a distinction between mutually exclusive ethical worldviews.

Reference: http://www.fsu.edu/~religion/jre/arc/27-3/407.html

DPolice
France

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French: éthique de la conviction

English translation: ethic of conviction