Sharma, Subhash  <br/><br/>
Dynamics of civil services  

 - Yojana 
 - 65(8), Aug, 2021: p.13-17 
<br/><br/> When Europe was enlightened in the eighteenth century, there the central focus was on rationality. Philosopher Immanuel Kant says the supreme principle of morality is a standard of rationality, hence to act rationally, by the universal moral law. Another famous scholar Rene Descartes talked of 'I am because I think', i.e., one's existence depends on the reason-thinking rationally and scientifically, not emotionally, subjectively, or in a biased manner. Max Weber (1864-1920) was the first sociologist who coined the term bureaucracy and explained it in detail. – Reproduced