Axiologic neutrality

The axiologic neutrality is, in the definition of the German Sociologue max Weber, the attitude of the enquiring not putting forth a value judgment in its work. The characteristic of sciences of the culture is to relate to a whole of cultural phenomena, i.e. of phenomena structured by values. The researcher must thus make these values his object, without relating for all that normative judgment to those: he must respect the principle of axiologic neutrality. Weber thus worked out the distinction between “value judgment” and “report/ratio with the values”. The “report/ratio with the values” describes the action of analysis of the researcher who, by respecting the principle of axiologic neutrality, made values of a culture of the facts to analyze without putting forth normative judgment on those, i.e. without carrying “value judgment”.

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