Packet 2: Tossup 18

This essay uses the example of a pillaging warlord to contrast “living for” and “living off.” This essay cites Hindu texts to refute F. W. Foerster’s view that “from good comes only good, but from evil only evil follows.” Matthew Yglesias’s Substack takes its name (15[1])from this essay’s (15[1]-5[1])account of its subject as a “strong and slow (15[1])boring (-5[1])of hard boards.” This essay lists the “eternal yesterday” and “gift of grace” as “inner justifications” and contrasts (15[1])an (*) “ethic (-5[1])of responsibility” with an “ethic of conviction.” This essay’s author paired it with a similarly titled one about “Science” in a 1919 (10[2]-5[1])lecture. (10[2])Charisma (10[2])is one of (10[1])three forms (10[1])of authority (10[2]-5[1])outlined in this essay, (10[3]-5[1])which defines (10[2])the state as (10[1])having (-5[1])a monopoly (10[3]-5[1])on the legitimate (10[1])use of (-5[1])force. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Max Weber (-5[1])essay (10[1]-5[1])on (10[1])the career of governance. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[10])

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