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Simmel

Simmel explains money as the symbolic object that embodies mind, centralizes relationships, and creates reality by making abstract relations concrete.

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The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...in a zombie civilization. All right, okay. So this is Georg Simmel, who is a friend of Max Weber's, the contemporaries, the colleagues, the..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"Okay, when we do this, we turn God into money, our understanding of reality becomes much more vibrant. We're able to understand reality much..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"So, at the beginning of the class, I talked about money, right? How money takes all our different perspectives and converges into one thing,..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa)

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"...of this time, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and this man, George Simmel. And George Simmel wrote a wonderful essay on the metropolis and mental..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

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"...of this time, Max Weber, Emil Durkheim, and this man, Georg Simmel. And Georg Simmel wrote a wonderful essay called The Metropolis and Mental..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...refer to three major thinkers. Max Weber, Imel Durkheim, and Georg Simmel. They're all sociologists. They're considered three major founders of the social sciences,..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...by God to bless humanity, okay? And what Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Imel Durkheim are trying to do is figure out what's really..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...They're Max Weber, who is considered the founder of sociology, Georg Simmel, and Emile Durkheim. These are the three major sociologists that really created..."

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