Inner-worldly asceticism

Inner-worldly asceticism was characterized by Max Weber in Economy and Society as the concentration of human behavior upon activities leading to salvation within the context of the everyday world.

He saw it as a prime influence in the emergence of modernity and the technological world, a point developed in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

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