 Together, Weber’s ethics also demand that the political leaders and public citizenry combine unflinching commitments to higher causes (which make them different from mere bureaucratic careerists) with sober realism that no political claim, including their own, can represent the whole truth (which makes them different from moral purists and political romantics). This syncretic ethic is the ultimate hallmark of those politicians with a sense of vocation who would fight for their convictions with fierce determination yet not without a “sense of pragmatic judgment” (Augenmaß)that a compromise is unavoidable between incommensurable value positions, and all they can do in the end is to take robust responsibility for the consequences, either intended or unintended, of what they thought was a principled compromise. This is why Weber said: “The politician must make compromises … the scholar may not cover them (Der Politiker muß Kompromisse machen … der Gelehrte darf sie nicht decken)” [MWG II/10, 983; also see Bruun 1972 (2007, 244)]. It is this type of political virtue that Weber wants to instill at the citizenship as well as leadership level, and the site of this political education is a pluralistically organized civil society in which leaders and citizens can experience the dynamic and institutionalized politicization (re)produced by partisan politics.