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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... morally crippled. Freud saw religion as a delusion and an irrational mental disorder, a neurosis. The materialist Marx argued that economic forces shaped religion [The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great ...
... moral restraint, and a high level of faith and trust built on a moral and ethical infrastructure provided by the Protestant ethic, capitalism's very future is at stake.73 This book will argue that the present crisis on Wall Street is ...
... moral and ethical confusion, international conflict, and culture clash, the Church needs to articulate a coherent reassessment of the Weber thesis for the postmodern world. Bland ecumenicalist appeals for “world peace” and wishful ...
... moral fortress built upon the rock of the Bible.”253 That is, Calvinism was a bold internationalist religious movement. In The Protestant Ethic Weber argues that Calvinism was “a carrier group”254 that met with extraordinary success 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 |