Max Weber on religion
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Today′s culture. ,discuss what ″A society that has forgotten its spiritual or other purpose in life″ means in society.
At the end of The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism (1905) He pessimistically describes the fate of modern humanity as an ″iron cage″. The ″iron cage″ is a metaphor for the condition of modern humanity in a technical, rationally defined, and efficiently organized society.
A society that has forgotten its spiritual or other purpose in life, humanity succumbs to an order ″now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production.″
