Max Weber
1864–1920
“The Protestant Ethic locks us in the iron cage of disenchanted rationality.”
The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.
- TDTheoretical Drive8 / 10
- TRTrust in Reason7 / 10
- TETrust in Experience7 / 10
- SRSkeptical Reflex7 / 10
The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.
- Bernard StieglerFORGE
Technics and time — exteriorization of memory shapes the human.
- Nick BostromCARTOGRAPHER
Superintelligence warns of existential risk from misaligned optimization.
- Toby OrdFORGE
The Precipice — humanity's long future as a moral category.
- Hilary GreavesFORGE
Longtermism — present obligations to vast possible futures.
- Jacques RancièreFORGE
The distribution of the sensible recasts politics as redistribution of who counts.
- Walter RodneyFORGE
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa lays out the political economy of empire.
Short exercises in the same tradition as Max Weber's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.
Three doors lead onward.
- 01 · QUIZThe InheritorFind your archetype — discover whether you'd argue with Max Weber or alongside them.CONTINUE ▶
- 02 · COMPAREMax Weber vs Bernard StieglerOn Mull's map Bernard Stiegler sits closest. See where they agree and where they part.CONTINUE ▶
- 03 · DAILYToday's SparOne philosopher, one topic, five minutes. A new one drops every day.CONTINUE ▶