Re: On Moore's Thought Experiments

Tue, 18 Nov 1997 14:01:50 -0600
Bill Schell (bill.schell@murraystate.edu)

At 12:46 PM 11/18/97 -0500, Andy wrote to Richard
>
>But I did have a couple of questions. (1) Why do you consider Weberian
>thought experiments (imaginary lines of history) to be a superior mode of
>analysis to historical materialist theorizing from concrete reality and
>actual history?
>
All of Weber's modeling was done from concrete historical example based in
culture as well as in materialist theory -- which is one reason his work
has held up better than marxism.