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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... Western Civilization; American History; World Religions; Comparative Religions; World Views and Values. Introduction to Philosophy; Introduction to Biblical Studies; Physical Geography; and Religion and Economics. ESEARCHER, AUTHOR, AND ...
... Western culture has indeed permeated the rest of the world. At a more basic level, however, Western concepts differ fundamentally from those prevalent in other civilizations. Western ideas of individualism, liberalism, constitutionalism ...
... Western standpoint, long-run per capita performance in all other parts of the world has been distinctly disappointing.”23 Toffler's Three Waves Maddison's chart can be combined with Alvin Toffler's famous and useful concept of “the ...
... Western recognition of human capacity to transform the forces of nature through rational investigation and experiment. A research agenda in experimental science was unique to the West and a fundamental requirement for the acceleration ...
... Western Europe for modern Islam's economic stagnation and failure. This view was articulated by one Islamic radical who explained “the nice living and stability the West enjoys is not because of the soundness of their thoughts and ...
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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 |