53 | Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Anti-Materialist Sociology
What's Left of Philosophy
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I'm Like, What's the Nature of the Claims?
There is something so like wishy washy in the last sentence or maybe it's the second last whatever the whole book where he says, and you know, I haven't tried to claim that this is the only explanation. This idealistic or what he calls the spiritual explanation. There could be a materialist explanation. But both should admit, they're just the beginning of an inquiry rather than actually explaining anything. It's not as though this like gives us like anything like a clear research program to proceed with. Like I don't know how you would.
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