Centennial Rumination on Max Weber's the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismUniversal-Publishers, 13 Μαρ 2006 - 272 σελίδες In 1904-1905 Max Weber published the sociological classic "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism." In this book Weber argues that religion, specifically "ascetic Protestantism" provided the essential social and cultural infrastructure that led to modern capitalism. Weber's suggests that Protestantism has "an affinity for capitalism." Indeed, something within Protestantism-by accident or design-creates the necessary preconditions that lead to the flowering of a just, free, and prosperous society. At the same time, Weber wonders if the economic backwardness of certain societies and regions of the world are somehow related to their religious affiliation. Weber's century old thesis challenges the erroneous core assumptions of many secular humanists, postmoderns, Roman Catholic traditionalists, and Islamists. In view of the threat of the War on Terror, and in the face of the inadequate response of secularist and post-modern intellectuals, it is vital that we understand and appreciate the profound paradigm shift that occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth century that led to the unfolding of modern capitalism. Despite a plethora of critics Max Weber's one-hundred year old thesis still stands. |
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... Calvinism and related sects], provided the essential social and cultural infrastructure that led to the birth and development of the stunning prosperity reflected in post 1750-1820 per capita GDP numbers. Weber's focus on ascetic ...
... Calvinism, i.e., in Weber's nomenclature “Protestantism.” To Weber the Protestant Reformation, and the Protestant work ethic, was “the most fateful force in our modern life.”45 According to Weber's doctor-father, Theodor Mommsen,46 ...
... Calvinist inspired revolution in politics, i.e., the concept of the republic and the separation of powers,55 as ... Calvinists tended to argue that powers needed to be separated, checked, and balanced. 56 Typified by Louis XIV of France ...
... Calvinist inspired Founding Fathers. Novak understands and appreciates the importance of Protestantism [i.e. ... Calvinism and Protestantism, and he praises the late Spanish Scholastics for their progressive pre-capitalist economics ...
... Calvinists, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, adventure capitalists, feudal aristocrats, commerce-orientated patrician families in the Middle Ages, persons in the middle class, etc. Each specific group has its own “frame of mind,” temperament ...
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Proof of Case Confirmatio or Probatio | 140 |
Refutation of Opposing Arguments Confutatio | 165 |
Conclusion Peroratio | 187 |
Who is Max Weber? | 199 |
Bibliography | 243 |