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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... States, a constitutional republic with the world's most developed economy, would not exist.63 Without the Protestant ethic the United States and the West would have developed along economic traditionalist64 lines with a Roman Catholic ...
... of the Reformation concern for the spiritual well-being and freedom of individual Christians stood at the forefront of the struggle with the Medieval Roman Catholic Church-State. Philip Schaff explains: The protest of Speyer was a ...
... Roman Catholic hierarchy enjoyed the benefit of awesome political and ... State Church' in Germany.”180 Weber writes, “the old Protestantism of Luther ... Church (Oxford University Press, 1957, 1989), p.1135. 179Weber, p.lxxvii. 180Ibid ...
Isaacs Mark. In addition to the Canon Law of the medieval Roman Catholic Church the Qur'an also prohibits usury. For example Surah 2:275-276 states “those who practice usury and interest will not be able to stand except like the standing ...
... Church domination of the State;221 hierarchy; static society; feudalism and serfdom; and subsistence level mass poverty,222 the profoundly conservative Roman Catholic Church-State consistently supported the existing social and political ...
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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 |