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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... promote social harmony and economic prosperity John Locke (1632-1704) and other thinkers in the Classical Liberal tradition argued for a minimalist role for the State. wrote “the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been 3.
... Thinkers (London: M.E. Sharpe, 2001), p.261].” The four horseman of the modern and postmodern secular world-view are Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx. 45 Protestant Ethic, p.17. 46 Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was Germany's greatest ...
... thinker. To this day, Max Weber tends to be praised and critiqued on all sides. In the past, Christians have tended to retreat into our own safe Evangelical ghetto. Christian scholars tend to read the great ones: i.e., James Orr (1844 ...
... thinkers, i.e., in Weber's words, “ascetic Protestantism” the United States, a constitutional republic with the world's most developed economy, would not exist.63 Without the Protestant ethic the United States and the West would have ...
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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 |