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Ideas for 'Essence and Potentiality', 'On Metaphysics (frags)' and 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'

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23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

20725	The idea of duty in one's calling haunts us, like a lost religion [Weber]
	Full Idea: The idea of duty in one's calling prowls about in our lives like the ghost of dead religious beliefs.
	From: Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism [1904], 5)
	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.