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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... 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 ...
... ascetic Protestantism [i.e., Calvinism and related sects], provided the essential social and cultural infrastructure that led to the birth and development of the stunning prosperity reflected in post 1750-1820 per capita GDP numbers ...
... 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 developed along economic ...
... ascetic Protestantism including Calvinism, Pietism, Methodism, and the Baptizing sects and churches126 have also been included.127 As discussed in great detail in Chapter Three of this book, Martin Luther, a great theologian and a ...
... ascetic Protestantism—played an essential role in the development of Western culture and society. Over the past one hundred years, instead of seeing the essential link between ascetic Protestantism, modern capitalism, and a good and ...
Contents
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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 |