Science as a vocation and profession: the experience of modern reading of M. Weber

Abstract

The article reviews a well-known M. Weber’s lecture addressed on the winter of 1918 to the Munchen University students through focus of problems developed in the modern science. Which statements stayed relevant and what is hard to agree with? Which negative tendencies have been seen by the scientist and what are their consequences in the beginning of the 21st century? Reviewing M. Weber’s works after almost hundred years allows looking at the “eternal” questions related to intellectual being of a man through a prism of a modern scientific knowledge state in Russia in a new sociocultural reality.