![]() Thus we treat here only one side of the causal chain. ![]() In this case we are dealing with the connection of the spirit of modern economic life with the rational ethics of ascetic Protestantism. Two older essays have been placed at the beginning which attempt, at one important point, to approach the side of the problem which is generally most difficult to grasp: the influence of certain religious ideas on the development of an economic spirit, or the ethos of an economic system. In an effort to understand the implications of this dynamic, he examined the relationship between the religious and economic systems of many different civilizations. He argued that the emergence of modern capitalism was favored by an ascetic spirit of sacrifice, hard work, and self-deprivation that grew out of early Protestantism. In Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus, Weber explored the meaning that people give to their actions in modern society. Trained as a lawyer, Max Weber (1864-1920) was a political economist and one of the founders of modern sociology. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918) ![]()
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