POLSCI 3CC3 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
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After nietzsche: nothing means anything; nevertheless, in spite of everything, 1897: heated fight with his father, and his father dropped dead right afterwards. So he dropped out, started wandering the world. Writes dryly and systematically, method is attempting to be objective. The father of social scientific written methods we use. But: there s an incredible commonality and connection between nietzsche and. Demonstrate how capitalism, in its modern form, appeared in the west. Out of the chaos of the vernacular bible (the reformation), there s an effort to calm and structure things in protestantism. Protestantism is a mode of conduct that goes with it an ethic. This ethic supported profit-making, reinvestment, and hard work. The system of modern capitalism is built on a web of concepts and assumptions we hold that go to the very core of how you think you should function in the world. They re worth examining because they weren t always around.