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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.
| 21132 | Domination is probable obedience by some group of persons [Weber] |
| 22366 | There is no objectivity in social sciences - only viewpoints for selecting and organising data [Weber] |
| 22367 | The results of social research can be true, and not just subjectively valid for one person [Weber] |
| 20719 | Punish the heretic, but be indulgent to the sinner [Weber] |
| 20725 | The idea of duty in one's calling haunts us, like a lost religion [Weber] |
| 20722 | Acquisition and low consumption lead to saving, investment, and increased wealth [Weber] |
| 20724 | When asceticism emerged from the monasteries, it helped to drive the modern economy [Weber] |
| 20717 | Capitalism is not unlimited greed, and may even be opposed to greed [Weber] |
| 20718 | Modern western capitalism has free labour, business separate from household, and book-keeping [Weber] |
| 7082 | Nature requires causal explanations, but society requires clarification by reasons and motives [Weber, by Critchley] |
| 22155 | We are disenchanted because we rely on science, which ignores values [Weber, by Boulter] |