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POL1 Weber, the amassing of a following is more like a regrettable…

- - - - been discussed, science can bring invaluable "to an individual's choice of ends, but it cannot rule out
  - - - Choose autonomously not only the means, but also the end
- - - - JW Muller: Quite apart from practical considerations about the size of states, however,
        Weber could never quite see most citizens as anything other than passive
        and incapable of understanding the complexities of modern social life. All they
        could – and all they should – do was cast a vote. Hence he dismissed the notion of a coherent popular will or mandate that could be translated into government programmes: as he wrote in a letter, ‘concepts such as the “will o the people”, the “true will of the people”, etc., ceased to exist for me long ago. They are fictions.’
      - At best, elections established a kind of popular feedback
        rewarding leaders who had better political skills and at least some concern for
        the wishes of the populace.
      - but unlike Weber he attributed no
        particular dignity to the public realm.
- - - - Responsibility, to Weber, involves taking responsibility for the actual consequences actions (at least, to the extent that those consequences are foreseable
      - Politicians are responsible for a cause, rather than a constituency
      - "Simply to feel passion, however genuinely, is not sufficient to make a politician unless, in the form of service to a 'cause', responsibility for that cause becomes the decisive lode-star of all action."
      - Responsible politician = using the means rationally with thoughts given to the ends
      - problem is concentration of responsibility, potential for the state to do irresponsible things, context in which he makes the arg for the need for responsibility
      - responsibility is grounded in the nature of political making
      - Disenchanted World
        
        Muller: a world in which religion, metaphysics
        and other sources of meaning – especially collective meaning – seemed all to
        have been placed in doubt.