Centennial Rumination on Max Weber's the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismUniversal-Publishers, 13. märts 2006 - 272 pages 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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... Catholics and Jews should be grateful for the American constitutional republic and culture established by the Calvinist inspired Founding Fathers. Novak understands and appreciates the importance of Protestantism [i.e., Weber's argument] ...
... Catholics, Lutherans, adventure capitalists, feudal aristocrats, commerce-orientated patrician families in the Middle Ages, persons in the middle class, etc. Each specific group has its own “frame of mind,” temperament, or outlook. The ...
... Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Puritans, Methodists, “adventure capitalists,” etc. In his book, to the consternation of many, Weber also groups and brackets Christians as diverse as Methodists and “Baptizing sects” under the banner ...
... Catholicism.152 Austrian Economist Eugene von Böhm-Bawerk (1851-1914) labeled this problem “the backwardness of the Romance countries.”153 In the opening sentence of Chapter One of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ...
... Catholicism. 157Collins, p.51. 158 Richard Swedberg, Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), p.119. 159Stephen P. Turner, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Weber (New York: Cambridge ...
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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 |