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Weber's The Protestant Ethic

In Our Time: Philosophy

CHAPTER

The New Testament Ethics

This is one of the most disputed texts in the whole of the twentieth century. If you take any three academics and ask them to summarize its argument, i suspect we would all come up with very considerable differences of opinion. Waber undoubtedly says, the only true source of ethics lies in religion. That's the only force that's powerful enough to generate ethics. And what weber says about love thy neighbour is not against it on any personal grounds at all,. but he says, this is irrelevant in the modern world.

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