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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... Mommsen,46 during the nineteenth century Christianity was not so much a name for a religion as it was “the only word expressing the character of today's international civilization in which numerous millions all over the many-nationed ...
... Mommsen, translated by Michael S. Steinberg, Max Weber and German Politics, 1890-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959, 1984), p.7 106Marianne S. Weber, p.119. 107Käsler, p.188. 108Today we might call these professors ...
... Mommsen, and Dirk Käsler to name a few. Conclusion Thus, on this the centennial of the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, an opportunity has been provided to re-read, reflect, and reapply the ...
... Specifically, Germany's East Elbian region. Wolfgang J, Mommsen, Max Weber and German Politics: 1890-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959, 1984), p.22-23. United States.239 Fear of the Poles, the Slavs, and Eastern 43.
... Mommsen, p.167. 253 Schaff. 254 Weber, p.liii. 255 p.101. Howard F. Vos, Exploring Church History (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994), 256 DiLorenzo, p.57. Thomas Hooker (c.1586-1647), the founder of Connecticut; and Roger ...
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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 |