53 | Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Anti-Materialist Sociology
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is Coercion Into Duty?
Weber is very concerned with the question of legitimacy, which is how do you turn coercion into duty. There's a similar thing here that he's trying to do on the economic front, I think. But again, that's it's restricted from within that ideal, that ideal domain, right? In order to tell the full story of legitimation, you have to go out of the ideal and explain what's being legitimated.
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