RESEARCH NOTE: READING NIETZSCHE AND WEBER: AN ESSAY ON RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT IN MODERNITY.

This essay discusses the views of Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche on the questions of religion, science, and the human spirit in the modern age. The essay draws from Daybreak, Twilight of the Idols, and The Anti-Christ by Nietzsche, and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and two other short essays by Weber, cognizant that relevant passages could be found in other works by both theorists. The essay seeks also to initiate critical discussion of the above issues within the social sciences, and calls upon social scientists, particularly sociologists, to carefully examine these issues, canonical work within the field, and our interpretations of famous theorists that we generally take for granted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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