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Synopsis: "The task of the teacher is to serve the students with his knowledge and scientific exposure and not to imprint upon them his personal political views" (146).

Science as vocation is a lecture given by Max Weber in 1918 in Munich University. He addressed to the students that why the science as vocation is meaning full for the students. He started with explanation about the science as vocation, what does it mean when some one have science as vocation. While explaining he mentioned the trajectories in the Germany and America. It’s really miserable If one is going o have vocation in science because it really painful to chase It all the time. And one will not be able to understand until and unless he will have the experience to pursuit. He talked about those who would have experience of science; those who would be having this most of them will end up with nothing only few would succeed this. It needs high level of understanding and ability to go through this pain full experience. His view about those who were having degrees and are called scientists is really awful but the way he talks about anything it provokes anybody to follow him.

Weber's next move is to consider the meaning of science as a vocation, pointing out the illusory notion of all considered meanings of science as: "the 'way to true being,' the 'way to true art,' the 'way to true nature,' the 'way to true God,' the 'way to true happiness'" (143). Due to the political culture of his time, science as a vocation can only have value if it answers, "What shall we do and how shall we live?" (143). Weber argues that science as vocation fails all of the internal presuppositions, but it not because science is actually free from presuppositions. Quite the contrary, one critical presupposition underlies all notions of science: that something is 'worth being known' (143). "Whether life is worth living and when - this question is not asked by medicine... Aesthetics does not...