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Max Weber · 2002
A collection of Max Weber's essays on the relationship between Protestant religious beliefs and the development of modern capitalism, including his seminal 1905 work and critical responses to contemporary critiques. Edited and translated by Peter Baehr and Gordon C. Wells, this volume presents Weber's systematic sociological analysis of how religious ethics shaped economic systems.
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Calvinist anxiety about salvation forged the disciplined inner-worldly asceticism that became capitalism's spiritual engine.
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The attitude toward moneymaking as an end in itself, a 'vocation,' which one has a duty to pursue, runs counter to the moral feeling of entire eras.
PES-RC-208Methodist workers in the eighteenth century were the object of hatred from their fellow workers—not due to religious eccentricities, but to their ascetic conduct.
PES-RC-202faith-and-doubt
The religious revolution took a form that did not give new energy to individuals, but rather added to the aura of the 'office,' driving all individual striving for emancipation from authority.
PES-RC-059Emotion can experience such a heightening that religious feeling can take on a truly hysterical character and achieve precisely the opposite effect.
PES-RC-302About ten persons stepped one after another into the icy water, submerged their faces, and reemerged spluttering and shivering, whereupon they were congratulated.
PES-RC-052work-as-meaning
The concept of 'comfort' embraces the range of ethically permissible uses of wealth—the cleanliness of the comfortable middle-class home, in contrast to the glitter of Cavalier pomp.
PES-RC-330Illuminates
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