The Research Of Max Weber Liberal Thought

Max Weber, the greatest thinkers in the late19th century and early20th century, its greatness lies not only in the academic contribution of many works of sociology, economics, history, political science and other disciplines, but also he is the greatest scholars of the academic controversy, especially the dispute that he is a liberal or nationalist is most intense.The theme of this paper is to demonstrate that Weber is the liberal then expand the analysis of his liberal ideas. Weber liberalism thought is reflected in three aspects: The first is the uniqueness of the German question sparked Weber liberalism concern unlike the Anglo-American tradition: individual freedom is threatened in the case of capitalism and the general trend of the bureaucratic system; Followed Weber constitutional vision for Russia and Germany: parliamentary democracy and federalism; Finally, Weber unique parliamentary democracy ideology: the parliamentary system of democracy is unity of opposites. Through the discussion of these three aspects, I will try to clarify Weber liberalism thought is in line with the basic connotation of liberal ideas and demonstrate Weber is a liberal. In order to more clear the Weber liberalism thought characteristics, the three typical characteristics mentioned in this article: Disenchantment liberalism; Between individualism and nationalism; A liberal in despair. These three characteristics are interrelated. Germany dimension makes Weber did not think on freedom from the point of view of the political philosophy liberalism, but from the experience of practical political. Weber wanted to build what he considered an orderly manner for constitutional democracy. The traditional liberalism theorists considered conception of history is optimistic and idealistic, but Weber saw the conflict-ridden world.That makes him pessimistic. From this perspective, Weber is a "a liberal in despair ".