sự phụ thuộc có nghĩa là đồng thời chia sẻ bên trong của sự vĩ đại của cấp trên." Ông trích dẫn như là một ví dụ "các mối quan hệ của người tôi tớ của mình tổng thể trong điều kiện gia trưởng. "57 Vierkandt nơi khác lại nói" tôi tớ những người cho thấy lâu đài của ông chủ của mình với | Sociology and History 91 whoever acts without consideration of the consequences to be anticipated in the service of his conviction of what duty honor beauty religious instruction filial love or the importance of an issue no matter of what kind seem to dictate to him acts in a purely valuational he employs an inappropriate mode of expression to describe this state of affairs. It would be more accurate to say that there are men who place the value of duty honor beauty and the like so high that they set aside other goals and ends for their sake. Then one sees rather easily that what is involved here are ends different to be sure from those at which the masses aim but ends nevertheless and that therefore an action directed at their realization must likewise be termed rational. The situation is no different with regard to traditional behavior. A farmer replies to an agricultural chemist who recommends to him the use of artificial fertilizers that he does not allow any city man to interfere in his farming. He wants to continue to proceed in the same way that has been customary in his village for generations as his father and grandfather all able farmers have taught him a way that has up to now always proved itself successful. This attitude on his part merely signifies that the farmer wants to keep to the received method because he regards it as the better method. When an aristocratic landowner rejects the proposal of his steward to use his name title and coat of arms as a trademark on the packages of butter going to the retail market from his estate basing his refusal on the argument that such a practice does not conform to aristocratic tradition he means I will forgo an increase in my income that I could attain only by the sacrifice of a part of my dignity. In the one case the custom of the family is retained because whether it is warranted or not is of no importance for us it is considered more rational in the other case because a value is attached to it .
