... . Protestants felt it their duty to hold onto and acquire more wealth, while condemning dishonesty and impulsive covetousness or greed. This Puritan ideal highly favoured the development of rational economic life. (Weber in Calhoun 2012: 304) Although, Weber later argues that this has ceased to be the case, and that modern capitalism has actually reached a point wherein it no longer needs ... the support of religion- that it has been wholly embedded into human life, that even without religion nourishing economic rationalism, it will continue to be a part of our daily lives. (Weber in Cal...

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