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Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic…
Quote byMax Weber · 1864–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905; 1920), Ch. 3 : Luther's Conception of the Calling.
English (original)
Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic lovelessness that withdraws from one's duties in the world. By contrast, this-worldly work in a vocation appears to him to be a visible expression of brotherly love, a notion he anchors in a highly unrealistic manner indeed and in contrast—almost grotesquely—to the well-known passages of Adam Smith.
— Max Weber
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