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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... father, Theodor 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 ...
... Fathers (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1987). 64For Weber, economic traditionalism, or the traditionalist economic ethic, is a frame of mind, or worldview, with respect to work. Work is viewed as a necessary evil applying to only one ...
... Fathers. Novak understands and appreciates the importance of Protestantism [i.e., Weber's argument] in establishing the preconditions of political and economic freedoms that made this nation prosper. 67Wertfreiheit helps explain why Max ...
... father, Hans Luther, rose from peasant status to a solid middle class copper mine and smelting entrepreneur.215 Despite this familial connection to early capitalism and. 209 Also Qur'an, Surahs 3:130; 4:161; and 30:39. 210Robert Morey ...
... father. Hence, Weber's opinions of Lutheranism were in part based on. 223 Robbins, p.142. 224Crocker, p.346-348. 225 Tawney, p.103. 226Ibid., p.45. 227 Marianne Weber, p.704. 228 Translated Old and New Protestantism. 229 Ernst Troeltsch ...
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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 |