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“new conception of religion, which taught them to regard the pursuit of wealth as, not merely an advantage, but a duty.”
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
“To the Calvinist, Weber argues, the calling is not a condition in which the individual is born, but a strenuous and exacting enterprise to be chosen by himself, and to be pursued with a sense of religious responsibility.”
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
“rational bourgeois capitalism”
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
“The question which Weber attempts to answer is simple and fundamental. It is that of the psychological conditions which made possible the development”
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
“Capitalism, in the sense of great individual undertakings, involving the control of large financial resources, and yielding riches to their masters as a result of speculation, money-lending, commercial enterprise, buccaneering and war, is as old as history. Capitalism, as an economic system, resting on the organisation of legally free wage-earners, for the purpose of pecuniary profit, by the owner of capital or his agents, and setting its stamp on every aspect of society, is a modern phenomenon.”
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
― The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With linked Table of Contents
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