The modern state in Weber

________ analyzes the relationship between religion, state, and capitalist development in his work The Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism, whose texts were published between 1904 and 1905.

Calvinism considers the doctrine of predestination: human beings would already be predestined to be condemned or saved in eternal life after death.

The Frenchman John Calvin (1509- 1564) was another great exponent of the Protestant Reformation.

In trying to explain the spirit of capitalism, Weber presents some ideas, such as those attributed to ________ (1706- 1790), a political philosopher and American diplomat.

The processes of bureaucratization became an inseparable part of societies, especially in the context of European modernity

it did not see money as a productive good and a generator of value

human beings would already be predestined to be condemned or saved in eternal life after death

many begin to consider only rational and material content and criticize religion and metaphysical philosophy

The modern state was accompanied by the development of a bureaucracy