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" 4. I come back in the fourth part to the metaphysical problem of coordinating individual behaviors by means of the future. This leads me to consider two paradoxes that have yet to be satisfactorily resolved: one a paradox of historical and religious anthropology associated with Max Weber, having to do with the curious affinity between the emergence of the capitalist spirit and the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, at least in the interpretation given to it by the Puritan settlers of New England; the other, a logical and metaphysical paradox due, it is said, to the physicist William Newcomb. "

Jean-Pierre Dupuy , Economy and the Future: A Crisis of Faith


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Jean-Pierre Dupuy quote : 4. I come back in the fourth part to the metaphysical problem of coordinating individual behaviors by means of the future. This leads me to consider two paradoxes that have yet to be satisfactorily resolved: one a paradox of historical and religious anthropology associated with Max Weber, having to do with the curious affinity between the emergence of the capitalist spirit and the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, at least in the interpretation given to it by the Puritan settlers of New England; the other, a logical and metaphysical paradox due, it is said, to the physicist William Newcomb.