disenchantment

is responsible for the widespread assumption that problems need only be studied objectively and rationally in order for solutions to become apparent.

The disenchantment of which Weber spoke has also resulted in the widespread assumption that problems need only be studied objectively and rationally in order for solutions to become apparent. This is at once the basis for public support, expectations, and disappointment regarding the assessment and management of risks' (Short 1984:715)

is the notion that one no longer has any need of the spirits and can, in principle, master all things by calculation.

The increasing intellectualization and rationalization . . . means . . . the knowledge or belief that if one but wished one could learn it at any time. Hence, it means that principally there are no mysterious incalculable forces that come into play, but rather that one can, in principle, master all things by calculation. This means that the world is disenchanted. One need no longer have recourse to magical means in order to master or implore the spirits, as did the savage, for whom such mysterious powers existed. Technical means and calculations perform the service. (Weber 1948: 139)

is brought along by nothing more than by attainment.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment'

disenchantment, n.All

disenchantment