The Importance of Academic Impartiality

Weber and Arendt were clear: the scholar s job is not to preach particular values to their students, but to facilitate a clarity of facts and open debate so that students may choose for themselves. As early as 1917, Weber was concerned that scholars were using their lectures to preach new theisms to their students. In a speech titled Science as a Vocation, he said that the only morality that exists in a lecture room is that of plain intellectual integrity. Just as we can no longer claim the purpose of research is to understand God, so too must we reject happiness or the advancement of an ideology. Rather, the purpose of academic study for Weber was to provide clear information so that individuals could existentially choose their own values.

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