Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber)

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Dec 7 11:57:57 PST 2000


At 12:04 PM 12/7/00 -0500, Charles wrote:
>Necessity is , for example, the law of gravity exhibiting itself
periodically when the roof falls in.

Note, however, that the necessity of the roof falling in looses its necessary character in a different location, say, a few hundred miles above the ground. It is the contingency of the positioning and the mass of the roof that makes the necessity of the law of gravity do its work. That is even more true of "laws" pertaining to human societies.

wojtek



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