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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... (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1922, 1932, 1936, 1981), p.528-532. 38 Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Capital and Interest (New Holland, Illinois: Libertarian Press, 1959), p.30. After the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9.
... interest, the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, the Protestant promotion of mass literacy and education, the role of marriage and family, and the Calvinist inspired revolution in politics, i.e., the concept of the republic ...
... Interests,” The Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2002, vol. CCXL, no. 18, sec. A1, describes the continued dismal political and economic crisis in Latin American where, “authoritarian political systems and Statedominated economies” have ...
... interests, and emotions within which they live, thereby to understand how “subjective meaning” is formulated.93 With Verstehen the social scientist hopes to get into the mind and the life situation of the subjects he is attempting to ...
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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 |