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Max Weber
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Mysticism intends a state of "possession," not action, and the individual is not a tool but a "vessel" of the divine.
— Max Weber, , 1916.
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
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Updated 2026-08-17
He traced the invisible wiring between Protestant guilt and capitalist ambition, argued that states are just whoever holds the monopoly on violence, and gave modernity a name for what it lost: enchantment. Weber built the tools sociology still uses to read power.
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Born in Erfurt in 1864, Weber studied law and history across Berlin, Göttingen, and Heidelberg, earning his doctorate in 1889 and beginning to teach. After his father died following an argument in 1897, he broke down, stopped teaching, and travelled for years. He recovered and wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, linking Protestant work ethic to the rise of modern capitalism, then examined religion's economic role in China, India, and ancient Judaism. During the First World War he moved from support to criticism, co-founded the German Democratic Party afterward, advised the…
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Max Weber
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Ordinarily, the propagation of Hinduism occurs in approximately the following way. ... Native deities are rebaptized with the names of Hindu gods and goddesses. ...
— pp. 9-10
Max Weber
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Legitimation by a recognized religion has always been decisive for an alliance between politically and socially dominant classes and the priesthood.
— p. 16
Max Weber
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A true prophecy creates and systematically orients conduct toward one internal measure of value.
— p. 235
Max Weber
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For the Confucian, the specialistic expert could not be raised to truly positive dignity, no mater what his social usefulness.
— p. 246
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