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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... European phenomenon through the eighteenth century. France, for example, among the richest of the European countries, experienced 13 general famines in the sixteenthcentury, 11 in the seventeenth century, and 16 in the eighteenth ...
... McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2001), Figure 2-7, p.44. 19John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955), p.229. 20 Murray, p.336. Africa, China, central Asia, Latin America, and “the other Europe,” 4.
... Europe,” i.e., Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former republics of the U.S.S.R. According to recent statistics reported in The Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook,21 in 2002, per capita GDP in the ...
... European system of nation states in close propinquity [i.e., nearness of blood, kinship] gave an interactive character to European intellectual life and commercial intercourse that was absent in Asia. The Western family system involved ...
... European system of nation states, i.e., the creation of a professional Police and Military to protect private property rights. 5.) Controls on fertility. 6.) Limited financial obligations to more distant kin, e.g., The Social Security ...
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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 |