diagnosis
Around 1900, Jiang says Protestant capitalism had conquered the world through Germany, Britain, and the United States, making Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel diagnose its consequences from inside its triumph.
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Sociology
Mark asks how Predictive History began.
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Mark asks how Predictive History began.
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"We must exhort all Christians to gain all they can and to save all they can. That is, in effect, to grow rich, all..."
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"Even though most people are not Protestants, Protestant, the work ethic, the belief system, has conquered the world. Germany, Britain, United States are the..."
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"...so many interesting facets of humanity, including, you know, anthropology, psychology, sociology. And so I've always been a very wide ranging thinker. And I..."
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"...have to look at the economy but if you draw some sociology there you it also shows that the the GDP and the economic..."
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"All right, now, because of these social changes, two new fields, sociology and psychology, are developed in order to try to understand what these..."
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"...social scientists. They're Max Weber, who is considered the founder of sociology, Georg Simmel, and Emile Durkheim. These are the three major sociologists that..."
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"...famous as Immanuel Kant. Imel Durkheim is considered the founder of sociology. Okay? So when you go to university and you study sociology guess..."
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"...social science approach. Okay? So you look at economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology. Right? What are they trying to do? They're trying to figure out..."
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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