EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Paymaster
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** in order to answer weber"s questions, here is what we need to know and think about. To answer these questions we need some background concepts. What are (failed) ways that people tried to overcome traditionalism . Traditionalism = only work as much as you need to survive. Difficult to overcome by economic means (paying more or less) Some other attitude is necessary to motivate people to work more. Weber: labor must, on the contrary, be performed as if it were an absolute end in itself, a calling, but such an attitude is by no means a product of nature (p. 7) An ethos ; ethically colored maxims for the conduct of life a set of virtues . In this case, the virtues are the ideal of the honest man of recognized credit and. The idea of duty to work and increase capital. Not about flaunting wealth, to the contrary waste not, want not .
