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[filed under theme 23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty ]

Full Idea

The idea of duty in one's calling prowls about in our lives like the ghost of dead religious beliefs.

Gist of Idea

The idea of duty in one's calling haunts us, like a lost religion

Source

Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism [1904], 5)

Book Ref

Weber,Max: 'Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism' [Routledge 2001], p.124


A Reaction

Great sentence! Vast scholarship boiled down to a simple and disturbing truth. I recognise this in me. Having been 'Head of Philosophy' once is partly what motivates me to compile these ideas.