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Johannes von Kries, "Über den Begriff der objektiven Möglichkeit und einige Anwendungen desselben" : A Japanese Translation (Part 3)

日本語

2013-03-27

Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University

Media and Communication Studies

64

39-65

解題: マックス・ウェーバーとフォン・クリース : 方法論の時代（その3） = Max Weber and Johannes von Kries : a Period of Intense Methodology Discussions (Part 3) / 山田吉二郎 (p.60-64)

The Japanese translation of von Kries' treatise "On the Concept of Objective Possibility and Some of its Applications" (1888) has been completed with this third part,and we are very glad that Japanese scholarly republic can now read this important treatise on their own language. It is almost obvious that von Kries wrote this treatise to commit himself to the famous controversy between the "old" and "new" schools of German jurists in the second half of XIX century, and therefore the field he tried to apply this concept to was the criminal law. Acquiring von Kries' methodology, Max Weber inquires into the possibility to appropriate it to quite another field --- history. Von Kries, characteristic concepts ("Objective possibility," "empirical rules," "adequate causaton," "generalization through abstraction," "quantitative gradation of real phenomena" etc.) were newly adapted and adopted by Weber eagerly and carefully. But it would be too hasty to say that Weber's methodology of "Ideal types" was constructed with these concepts because among Kries' concepts there is not the faintest nuance of "ideal" --- much more still remains to be done before we can shed light on Weber's methodology thoroughly.

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