Summary of Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Summary of Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of capitalist economy Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a breeding of the relationship mingled with the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and the emergence of the spirit of late capitalism. Weber argues that the religious ideas of groups such as the Calvinists played a position in creating the capitalistic spirit. Weber first observes a correlation between being Protestant and being involved in business, and declares his intent to look for religion as a potential cause of the modern stinting conditions. He argues that the modern spirit of capitalism sees profit as an destruction in itself, and pursuing profit as virtuous. Webers goal is to understand the reference book of this spirit. He turns to Protestantism for a potential expla...