53 | Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Anti-Materialist Sociology
What's Left of Philosophy
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What Is the Purpose of Social Organization?
The capital accumulation drive gets something so backwards about what the even the purpose of social organization is, right? We know that money is just a means and it is a means to what? Whatever it is that you can buy with it and use. And then all of a sudden starting in like the 16th century, 17th century, we get like an entire world destroying form of social organization that says actually pure means as an end in itself is the thing. How did that happen? That is bananas. I feel like he, he, he was very highly systematic guy, in my opinion. He sure was.
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