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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... historian, Bible scholar, theologian, apologist, and comparative religions scholar. Pastor Mark—born in Minneapolis, and baptized in Hazel Run, Minnesota— has lived most of his life on the East Coast in Maryland, New Jersey ...
... historian Mark Skousen writes: For centuries and millennia, from Roman times through the Dark Ages and the Renaissance, man struggled to survive by the sweat of his brow. Often only eking out a bare existence. He was constantly guarding ...
... historian Sir Henry Maine (1822-1888) 8 Charles Murray, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003), p.47. 9Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel ...
... historian Paul Johnson, writing in the National Review, adds: Society in the West established a consistent pattern of wealth-making even in the Middle Ages. From the fifteenth century, two factors—the invention of double-entry ...
... historians, economists, and social scientists that tend to ignore the crucial role and impact of religion, Weber argues that religion is the essential variable in understanding the rise of modern capitalism.35 Weber argues that religion ...
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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 |