Um Diagnóstico da Modernidade: um paradoxo entre a racionalização e liberdade no pensamento de Max Weber

Abstract

ABSTRACT The present research aims to analyze one of Max Weber's diagnoses regarding modernity, particularly focusing on the paradoxical link between rationalization and human freedom that permeates modern human life. The study seeks to present certain implications of this phenomenon, highlighting the relationship between rational actions concerning ends and human freedom. Drawing from the constitution of Weberian comprehensive sociology, as well as the developments of his empirical analyses, Max Weber explores some fundamental and constituent elements of the rationalization process and the disenchantment of the world in order to understand the genesis of the modern world, striving to identify the singularity of modern Western culture. In this sense, we seek to demonstrate how, through a secular process known as "rationalization process," it contributed to the emergence of a methodically deliberate action, which characterizes modern Western culture, and how this phenomenon brought with it the potential of being a tensioner of the foundations of human freedom. Keywords: Max Weber; rationalization process; modernity; freedom; rational action with regard to ends.