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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... translated by Ephraim Fischoff, The Sociology of Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1922, 1993), p.220. 3 Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations,” reprinted from Foreign Affairs in American and the World: Debating the New Shape ...
... translated by J. Kahane, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1922, 1932, 1936, 1981), p.528-532. 38 Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Capital and Interest (New Holland, Illinois: Libertarian Press, 1959) ...
... translated into English by Talcott Parsons in 1930; and newly translated by Kalberg in 2002 as “the Third Roxbury Edition.” Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) was an American sociologist and popularizer of Weber's work in the US. Parsons ...
... (Cambridge, U.K.; Cambridge University Press, 2000), p.152. 54 Max Weber, translated by Ephraim Fischoff, The Sociology of Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1963, 1993), p.xx. Beyond Weber To Max Weber's basic argument in The Protestant 12.
... translated by Stephen Kalberg, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company, 1904-1905), 2002). From the forward by Stephen Kalberg, p.lxxviii. 93 Ibid. 94Percy L. Greaves, Mises Made Easier ...
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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 |