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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... postmodern secular world-view are Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx. 45 Protestant Ethic, p.17. 46 Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was Germany's greatest historian of Ancient Rome. 47Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York, Harper ...
... postmodern global, secular, and multi-cultural world? To continue to enjoy the benefits and blessings of the capitalist system must we continue to be Protestants? After one hundred years Max Weber and his thesis on the Protestant ethic ...
... postmodernist 74 abandonment of the Protestant ethic,75 an ethic, as Weber argues, that created and provided the very ... postmodernism, secular humanism, and related godless worldviews,77 are ethical systems built on sand. Thus, we ...
... postmodernist and deconstructionist critics that tend to fragment ideas and concepts to the point that nothing definitive can be said about anything. Critics charge Weber with over-generalization, and with stereotyping. These charges ...
... postmodern world. Bland ecumenicalist appeals for “world peace” and wishful thinking about the “peaceful nature” of Islam are no longer viable options for the Church or for the survival and preservation of Western civilization. i.e., a ...
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 |