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The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Salvation

Weber: We still have that same sort of religious drive, but is it now sublimated? Those are God now money and status and worldly success. Is that now the measure of our worth as human beings? He says there's a kind of solace being able to look at bracing demystification of modern life in the face. But paradoxically, I do think that fatalistic seeming portrait of a disenchanted modernity is a ground from which satisfying modes of life can be found.

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