9 ideas
20725 | The idea of duty in one's calling haunts us, like a lost religion [Weber] |
21995 | Must production determine superstructure, or could it be the other way round? [Singer on Marx] |
20577 | Even decently paid workers still have their produce bought with money stolen from them [Marx] |
20722 | Acquisition and low consumption lead to saving, investment, and increased wealth [Weber] |
20724 | When asceticism emerged from the monasteries, it helped to drive the modern economy [Weber] |
20717 | Capitalism is not unlimited greed, and may even be opposed to greed [Weber] |
20718 | Modern western capitalism has free labour, business separate from household, and book-keeping [Weber] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |
20719 | Punish the heretic, but be indulgent to the sinner [Weber] |