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Published · transcript-backedNoel Johnson: belief
30 Jan 2019 Conversations with Tyler Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration*
“Perhaps overrated. I think he has a lot of really good ideas, and he had them very early on.”
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- Noel Johnson
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- belief
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- 30 Jan 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Max Weber. Overrated or underrated? Rated about right. Perhaps overrated. I think he has a lot of really good ideas, and he had them very early on. I’ve used a lot of what he’s written about, so rated about right. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism had a lot of really good ideas in it, even if he might have been right for the wrong reason, that Protestants built more schools probably? And it wasn’t that — there was this true ethical change. His concept of bureaucracy has been very useful for my thinking as well. Jared Diamond’s book Guns, Germs, and Steel.…
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