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The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Weber's Portrait of the Capitalist Mindset
Weber saw modernity as a kind of given that modernity had cordoned the religious off from the scientific and here we were. He looks to Benjamin Franklin as a pivotal figure in this history, he says. Weber got his portrait of Franklin from a 19th century German satirical novel called America Muda,. It is worth noting that Weber took Franklin a little too seriously.
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