ABSTRACT
Max Weber tried to discover the rules observed by the man of action, the laws of political life. He wondered what meaning man can give his existence in the world, what relationship there is between a man's religious ideas and the way he lives, the attitudes he adopts toward the economy and the relation he establishes with the polity. Max Weber had used the antithesis between generalized reconstruction and particularized reconstruction in terms of values. The sciences of culture—history and sociology—propose to understand human productions which create values or are defined with reference to values. It might be said that science is a rational activity whose goal is to arrive at judgments of fact which will be universally valid. The social sciences are given force and direction by the questions the scientists address to reality, and the interest of their answers depends largely on whether they have asked interesting questions.
