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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... tended to follow economic prosperity. Charles Murray notes that, Human accomplishment in the arts and sciences first became possible because of wealth [Capital] accumulation. Only with the accumulation of a surplus beyond the ...
... tended to retreat into our own safe Evangelical ghetto. Christian scholars tend to read the great ones: i.e., James Orr (1844-1913); J. Gresham 55 Based on real world anthropology, i.e., that fallen man is inherently evil, Calvinists tended ...
... tended to neglect the work of Max Weber71 65 For example, Matt Moffett, “Old Demons Sap Sign of Progress in Latin America: Economic Woes Across Region and Political Drift Weigh Heavily on U.S. Interests,” The Wall Street Journal, July ...
... tended to be enamored with various forms of socialism.131 For example, Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and Karl Barth (1886-1968) openly embraced hard left-wing socialism.132 Meanwhile, the great Luther scholar Paul Althaus (1888-1966) and the ...
... tended to support the political and economic status quo. That is, rather than shattering “the great medieval synthesis,”219 which featured alternating periods of Caesaropapacy220 and Church domination of the State;221 hierarchy; static ...
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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 |