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The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Importance of Rhetoric in the Protestant Ethic
This is an image he invokes near the end of the Protestant ethic. And as you point out in your essay that it would probably be better translated as iron suit rather than iron cage. There's a good example of Weber reaching for a kind of rhetorical grandeur, even a romantic grandeur. The Puritans of Weber writes wanted to be men of the calling. We on the other hand must be.
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