Quote#Self
The Confucian aspirant to office, stemming from the old tradition,…
Quote byMax Weber · 1864–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Religion of China (1915), p. 160.
English (original)
The Confucian aspirant to office, stemming from the old tradition, could hardly help viewing a specialized, professional training of European stamp as anything but a conditioning in the dirtiest Philistinism. ... The fundamental assertion, ‘a cultured man is not a tool’ meant that he was an end in himself and not just a means for a specified useful purpose.
— Max Weber
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