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The Protestant and Kantian definitions of reality provided Weber both with the cognitive framework for his view of life and with a motivational structure. The world was mastered by reason, but intellect was accompanied by duty and the need for salvation. The sharpness of the conflict between rationality and irrationality was not a mere intellectual problem, it was a dilemma he felt deeply.
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© 1990 Martin Albrow
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Albrow, M. (1990). The Nietzschean Challenge. In: Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory. Contemporary Social Theory. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20879-1_4
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