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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... 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 during the nineteenth century Christianity was not so much a name for a religion as it ...
... Reformation, not only in reforming the Church, but also in transforming society and providing the spiritual, legal, and philosophical infrastructure that led to the creation of modern Western Civilization.62 Without Martin Luther, John ...
... Reformation. The Reformation ideal of the Church as always being reformed was a bulwark against the kind of cultural stagnation that has plagued the Islamic world... The reforming mindset not only affected Christianity, but it also ...
... Reformation paradigm. This Lutheran theological worldview is primarily rooted in the thought of four important Lutheran theologians. These would include Martin Luther, Paul Althaus, Frans Pieper, and Eric W. Gritsch. This book ...
... Reformation, and especially Calvinism, had an affinity to capitalism. In certain regions of Europe this “this-worldly asceticism,”156 displaced the static medieval Roman Catholic order which was bound and obsessed with “other-worldly ...
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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 |