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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... Islamic world. According to Peter Benesh, writing in Investor's Business Daily, 1.3 billion people live in countries where Islam is the dominant or state religion. During the early Middle Ages, Islamic societies enjoyed a high level of ...
... Islam," Investor's Business Daily, September 27, 2001. Tragically, these statistics can be updated with similar shocking results. For current statistics see The CIA World Factbook. 44Mark Skousen correctly points out that ...
... Islam.52 Stephen Turner points out that “Religion [not just Christianity or Protestantism] interested Max Weber for most of his life.”53 According to Joachim Wach, Max Weber and his friends Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923) and Werner Sombart ...
... Islam's decline and Christianity's ascent began with the Reformation. The Reformation ideal of the Church as always being reformed was a bulwark against the kind of cultural stagnation that has plagued the Islamic world... The reforming ...
... Islam.113 We get a tantalizing glimpse at what Weber's book on Islam might have been by reading a small section of his book The Sociology of Religion.114 Ideal Types In a related concept, the ideal type is one of Weber's best known 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 |