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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... teachings of all the branches of knowledge, including those of the natural sciences.”96 While understanding is practiced by everyone, deep understanding, Verstehen, is deliberate and systematic reflection conducted by scholars and ...
... teachings of the Church [i.e., Canon, Creeds, and Confessions] and embraced a host of “politically correct” and leftist causes.137 A working knowledge of the insights of Max Weber would assist mainline Protestant theologians in escaping ...
... teachings of “the Philosopher,” declared usury to be a sin.201 This negative view of money lending, i.e., that usury was something evil, became enshrined in Roman Catholic Canon Law.202 R.H. Tawney explains that during the Middle Ages ...
... teachings of Mohammad still dominate the culture and the State, usury is still prohibited. Hence, to be a capitalist in these cultures implies that one must violate religious law. In such a system you are forced to become either a law ...
... Teaching of the Christian Churches (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster, John Knox Press, 1912, 1992), vol. 2, p.819. 234Troeltsch, Protestantism and Progress, p.9. 235 Karl Loewenstein, Max Weber's Political Ideas in the Perspective of ...
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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 |