This writer was born to a wealthy German family in 1864 and was greatly influenced in his early years by the Puritan philosophies held by his mother.
This writer was born to a wealthy German family in 1864 and was greatly influenced in his early years by the Puritan philosophies held by his mother. After receiving a professorship at Freiburg in 1894, he wrote theses addressing agrarian problems and boasted the obsolescence of the ruling Junker aristocracy. He was institutionalized between 1898 and 1903, but his later works were considered his best, including those dealing with the effects of Calvinistic theology on the German economy. FTP, name this philosopher best known for The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
This writer was born to a wealthy German family in 1864 and was greatly influenced in his early years by the Puritan philosophies held by his mother.
Max Weber