Protestant Ethic and Other Writings

Protestant Ethic and Other Writings

Summary

In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.

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Max Weber

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