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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... Tawney (1880-1962); Reinhard Bendix (1916-1991); Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995); Richard Swedberg; Anthony Giddens; Randall Collins; Michael Novak; and others. Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait, (1960) by Reinhard Bendix is also an ...
... Tawney, Richard Swedberg, Anthony Giddens, Randall Collins, Lewis A. Coser, Wolfgang J. Mommsen, and Dirk Käsler to name a few. Conclusion Thus, on this the centennial of the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit ...
... Tawney Thesis has been controversial since it was first proposed by Weber, and refined by Ernst Troeltsch (1906),161 and R.H. Tawney (1926).162 With this thesis Weber argued that, using Thomas Kuhn's now famous phrase, “a paradigm shift ...
... Tawney explains that during the Middle Ages “the high-water mark of the ecclesiastical attack on usury... manifest usurers were not to be admitted to communion or Christian burial; their offerings were not to be accepted; and ...
... ), p.30. 212 Ibid., p.30. 213 Martin Marty, Martin Luther: A Penguin Life (New York: Lipper/Viking, 2004), p.xi. 214 Luther's Works, vol. 45, p.245-310. 223 Robbins, p.142. 224Crocker, p.346-348. 225 Tawney, p.103. 226Ibid., p.45. 40.
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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 |