“For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which to-day determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt.”
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Max Weber
Max Weber was a German sociologist, political economist, and philosopher, a prominent figure in the social sciences in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known for his work on modern social structures, religious sociology, and political sociology, Weber's theories have had a profound impact on the fields of sociology, politics, and economics. more
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