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141 quotes from Max Weber: 'Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
10 paź 2023 · Max Weber theorized that 17th-century Protestant values contributed to the emergence of capitalism in Europe. Weber argued that Protestantism, particularly Calvinism, promoted a strong work ethic, characteristics upon which the capitalist system flourishes.
8 gru 2015 · Weber, Ghosh points out, says of himself that “wholly and utterly remote from God, one lives against God, wholly and utterly alone.” Similarly, Weber argues that the Puritan lives in “inner isolation,” in “utter remoteness from God.”
As Weber puts it: “to speak religiously –: ‘the Christian does right and leaves the consequences to God.’” ( “religiös geredet –: ‘der Christ tut recht und stellt den Erfolg Gott anheim’”) (Weber 1992: 237). Indeed, Weber refers to Martin Luther’s concluding words at Worms: “I can do no other, here I stand” ( “ich ...
21 sie 2014 · Few people today would instinctively describe Weber as a “religious thinker”; but while he was evidently not a religious believer, the place he allotted to the religious component within human conduct was uniquely important.
2 wrz 2009 · This article holds that Max Weber's sociology of religion has been mostly read as a theory of secularisation, when what Weber assumed was a different relationship between religion and modernisation than this reading suggests.
Weber discusses what he calls “the spirit of capitalism,” using several aphorisms of Benjamin Franklin, such as “Time is money” and “Money is of the prolific, generating nature.”
