PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - General Idea, Iron Cage, Capital Accumulation
Document Summary
Industriousness is a moral duty you have a duty to increase your wealth, always make sure that people around you know that you are hardworking, up-standing and honest member of the family. Rationalism capitalist ideal is somehow tied to the rationalized. Protestant ethic protestantism was a movement within christian led by martin. Luther and others, the idea is that every individual can have access to god, and that was revolutionary because it changes the whole idea of faith, salvation: key aspects of protestant way of life. Asceticism self-denial, one is denying pleasure, should be able to suffer from pain; this form of asceticism is a classic feature of monks; the protestant asceticism is a bit different from monks; reasons and difference include: Methodical self-supervision feeling of urgent to rule the temptations out; during this time diary was invented, which was used as a way of self-supervision.
