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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... Classical and medieval societies were based on the rigid labor-intensive slave and serf caste structure.13 In the West this ancient ... Liberal tradition argued for a minimalist role for the State. wrote “the movement of the progressive ...
... classical liberal, Bismarckian regime employed aggressive state socialist interventionist schemes “from above” to force rapid economic development.86 Bismarck's goal was not only to build a powerful German empire, but also to “catch up ...
... classic seventeenth and eighteenth century orthodox Lutheran theology. Pieper's basic ... liberal Protestant theologians such as Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834). He presents these arguments in a traditional and classical ...
... classical liberal Protestants of his generation Weber associated Lutheranism with an unsavory combination of authoritarianism [from above] and passivity [from below] which spilled over into the realm of politics that characterized the ...
... political offices, which they used to defend their economic position [i.e., mercantilist style monopoly special privileges granted by the State] from the accelerating inroads of [classical liberal] capitalist expansion.”241 It is ...
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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 |