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	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Third Edition by Roxbury Publishing Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		What Weber's ideas most clearly demonstrate is not capitalism as it is seen by the the devout protestant or any derivation thereof, he clearly proposes that capitalism itself is founded and practiced solely on the moral and ethical teachings of the protestant refromation.
		It is aided by the virtualy simultanious growth of both capitalism and Protestantism that enabled capitalism to extend beyond simply a seclar practise and over-all "necissary evil," into a fully encompassing and consuming reflection of an individual's spiritual right of passage.
		Luxury and Capitalism is in fact a very "Smithian" account of the origin of capitalism in the seigneurial lord's fascination with luxury goods, and his gradual displacement by the urban manufacturer.
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	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
		The capitalism of promoters, large-scale speculators, concession hunters, and much modern financial capitalism even in peace time, but, above all, the capitalism especially concerned with exploiting wars, bears this stamp even in modern Western countries, and some, but only some, parts of large-scale international trade are closely related to it, today as always.
		Or in terms of cultural history, the problem is that of the origin of the Western bourgeois class and of its peculiarities, a problem which is certainly closely connected with that of the origin of the capitalistic organization of labour, but is not quite the same thing.
		In this case we are dealing with the connection of the spirit of modern economic life with the rational ethics of ascetic Protestantism.
	www.cla.wayne.edu /polisci/kdk/Seminar/sources/weber2a.htm (4355 words)

	The Theology of Change by James W. Dow
		The Protestant desire for decision-making freedom was expressed in the liberal Protestant theologies that followed the Reformation.
		Most Evangelical Protestant sects do have church authorities, but their theologies still contain the revolutionary element that gave birth to the original sect.
		In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber.
	personalwebs.oakland.edu /~dow/personal/papers/histfac/toc3.htm (4292 words)

	ABC Radio National: The Ark 12 February 2006 - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
		And the single dominant interpretation of the origin of capitalism was the one offered by Marx, which of course saw capitalism emerging out of the accumulation of capital at the beginning of the early modern period, and arising out of feudalism, and very much explained capitalism in terms of economic factors.
		What Weber was doing was explaining capitalism in terms of ideological psycho-social factors, and at the time this was taken very much as being a refutation, or an attempted refutation, of Marxism.
		Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism (1905): A Centennial Essay
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	Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
		Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse.
		Calvinism opposed organic social organization in the fiscal-monopolistic form which it assumed in Anglicanism under the Stuarts, especially in the conceptions of Laud, this alliance of Church and State with the monopolists on the basis of a Christian-social ethical foundation.
		One of the fundamental elements of the spirit of modern capitalism, and not only of that but of all modern culture: rational conduct on the basis of the idea of the calling, was born-that is what this discussion has sought to demonstrate-from the spirit of Christian asceticism.
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	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Criticisms of Weber's Thesis
		Fanfani argues that capitalism as we know it today was born in the Italian merchant states under the religious umbrella of Catholicism, but he discounts the effect that religion of any kind had on the growth of capitalism as the major world economic system.
		There was plenty of capitalist spirit in fifteenth century Venice and Florence, or in south Germany and Flanders, for the simple reason that these areas were the greatest commercial and financial centers of the age.
		Tawney proposed that the rationality inherent in capitalism became a tenet of Protestantism because rationality was diametrically opposed to the traditionalism of Catholicism.
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	Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
		Furthermore the opening pages of the Protestant Ethic spell out a whole sequence of material practices seen as crucial to capitalist development in early modern Europe: notably the rise of autonomous towns, the separation of enterprise and household, and double entry book-keeping.
		Protestant teaching, especially that of Calvin, imbued the individual with a sense of original sin; a sober and industrious life would be the sign or proof of salvation.
		In the ‘Protestant Ethic’ Weber argues that the Calvinist belief in predestination furnished a constant inner guarantee of consistent conduct; in a later text on the Protestant sects he urges that each eliever takes care to pursue a restrained, godly life because of concern for the opinion of fellow-believers.
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	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
		On the Protestant side it is used as a basis of criticism of those (real or imagined) ascetic ideals of the Catholic way of life, while the Catholics answer with the accusation that materialism results from the secularization of all ideals through Protestantism.
		Moreover, the French Protestants, among others, long retained, and retain to a certain extent up to the present, the characteristics which were impressed upon the Calvinistic Churches everywhere, especially under the cross in the time of the religious struggles.
		If any inner relationship between certain expressions of the old Protestant spirit and modern capitalistic culture"is to be found, we must attempt to find it, for better or worse, not in its alleged more or less materialistic or at least anti-ascetic joy of living, but in its purely religious characteristics.
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	Max Weber Today
		The fifth chapter situates Weber's Protestant Ethic against his subsequently undertaken 1913 investigation of 'the "practical incentives to action" that were formed in the psychological and pragmatic contexts of particular religions' (143).
		Weber, Max (1958a) 'The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism', pp.
		Weber, Max (1991) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
	www.cjsonline.ca /reviews/maxwebertoday.html (6523 words)

	Third Roxbury Edition THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM
		For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - one of the most enduring and influential books in sociology - is available from Roxbury.
		The Third Roxbury Edition includes Weber's 1906 essay "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism." Written after his extensive travels in the United States in 1904, Weber comments here on the diverse ways in which the legacies of early American Protestantism remain influential.
		The Baptizing Sects: The Quakers, Baptists, and Mennonites
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	SparkNotes: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Summary
		Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a study of the relationship between the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and the emergence of the spirit of modern capitalism.
		He argues that the modern spirit of capitalism sees profit as an end in itself, and pursuing profit as virtuous.
		However, once capitalism emerged, the Protestant values were no longer necessary, and their ethic took on a life of its own.
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	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.
		Based on the original 1905 edition, this volume includes, along with Weber's treatise, an illuminating introduction, a wealth of explanatory notes, and exemplary responses and remarks-both from Weber and his critics-sparked by publication of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
		The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism (1905)
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	"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" CHAPTER V.2
		For, in conformity with the Old Testament and in analogy to the ethical valuation of good works, asceticism looked upon the pursuit of wealth as an end in itself as highly reprehensible; but the attainment of it as a fruit of labour in a calling was a sign of God's blessing.
		Also, since it is not simply a question of the purchase of land, it did not there seek to transfer itself to feudal habits of life, and thereby to remove itself from the possibility of capitalistic investments.
		But it not only deepened this idea most powerfully, it also created the force which was alone decisive for its effectiveness: the psychological motivation of it through the conception of this labour as a calling, as the best, often in the last analysis the only means of attaining certainty of grace.
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		Countrybookshop.co.uk - Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The
		Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read.
		Widely considered as the most informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism holds its own as one of the most significant books of the twentieth century.
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	Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
		We discussed Marx's concept of the commodity as a fetish, but for Marx the fetish character of the commodity is rooted in the capital fetish.
		Weber argues that the love of money and even capitalism are ancient phenomena, but he quotes Franklin to bring to light what is distinctive regarding the spirit of modern capitalism.
		Consider Weber's description of this ethic: "this peculiar idea, so familiar to us to-day, but in reality so little a matter of course, of one's duty in a calling, is what is most characteristic of the social ethic of capitalistic culture, and is in a sense the fundamental basis of it.
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	Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		He was unfavourable to the sects and the fanatical enthusiasm of the saints, but was very broad-minded about external peculiarities and objective towards his opponents.
		The Jews stood on the side of the politically and speculatively oriented adventurous capitalism; their ethos was, in a word, that of pariah-capitalism.
		One of the fundamental elements of the spirit of modern capitalism, and not only of that but of all modern culture: rational conduct on the basis of the idea of the calling, was born – that is what this discussion has sought to demonstrate – from the spirit of Christian asceticism.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/weber/protestant-ethic/ch05.htm (7154 words)

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		The Calvinistic capitalism on the other hand produces (besides all superficial correctness) a subtle social coldness, a fight of everybody against everybody, which promotes the assumption, that there is not enough space in the paradisiacal sky for everyone at all.
		The restful lesiureness of society was lost to the spirit of capitalism of "time is money" and efficiency, the utilization of personal powers and material possessions or capital, the moral attributes as quoted by Benjamin Franklin of "honesty the best policy", the acquisition of money in diligence" Seest thou a man diligent in his business.
		Calvin rejected all Catholic mystical and magical realms of imaginative and religious experiential awareness and rejection to all emotional appeal of religious experience to that of the utilitarian practicality of everyday efficient living in virtuous, the Puritan distrust of men, and ethical capitalistic society.
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		Replacing this, Weber proposes that the "spirit" of Capitalism be thought of as a particular moral attitude towards work and idleness-an attitude that holds that constant and diligent work for its own sake is a moral imperative.
		Hegel characterizes work as a means of the realization of Spirit within the human self, since the performance of duties which one would not normally choose to do can be thought of as a deliberate placing of oneself in the context of alienation.
		In "The Protestant Ethic" Weber famously attempts to explain how the spirit of modern rational capitalism emerged; and he essentially argues that an important part in this process was played by what he termed ascetic protestantism or different types of Protestantism that were activistic and ascetic (most famously Calvinism).
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	The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Anja Zeidler - The Gaddis Annotations - Critical & ...
		The history of the Bast family echoes a connection Max Weber establishes in his famous book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism between the spirit of capitalism and the rational way of life practised within various groups of ascetic Protestantism.
		It is rationality and systematization which bind together the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
		He identified the Protestant ethic of the Calvinist type, to which the early settlers of the North American continent had adhered, as of that same spirit, a spirit and thus outlook upon life that is distinguished by methodism and rationality.
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	Max Weber's Texts
		It argues that modern rational capitalism originated in the ethos of ascetic Protestantism.
		He unveils the paradoxical outcome that the Protestant ethic of vocational and methodical conduct of life unintentionally gave birth the spirit of capitalism.
		Weber describes the traveling impression of the United States, and sees its social foundation in the Protestant sects.
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	Criticisms of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
		Criticisms of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
		The reformation was a reaction to catholic capitalism rather than a way of allowing protestant capitalism to flourish.
		Some say that Weber is too arbitrary in his determination to carve up definite forms of capitalism so as to make the latter forms align with his interpretation of protestantism.
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	List of Max Weber works - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (original - 1904 to 1905, translation - 1930)
		The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism, [?]
		See External link section of Max Weber article for a list of websites containing online works of Max Weber.
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		These arguments can be refuted in various ways, for example by showing that the...
		The Protestant work ethic — also known as the " Puritan work ethic" — is a biblically based teaching on the necessity of hard work, perfection and the goodness of labor.
		Protestant preachers preached on the goodness and the necessity of labor and its efficacious effect for humans personally and on Christian society as a whole.
	www.ethics-tips.com /i/EthicProtestant (850 words)

	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Book Information
		The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Book Information
		First published in 1905 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the most renowned and controversial works of modern social science.
		It is a brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization.
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		In In the Spirit: Alabama's Sacred Music Traditions, edited by Henry Willett, 17-21.
		Wilson, Bryan R. The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism: Sects and New Religious Movements in Contemporary Society.
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	Soc 461
		Bellah stresses the dynamic multidimensional nature of the self capable of continuing self-transformation and capable of remaking world.
		Of a new form of society, i.e., modern capitalism, a new kind of
		Similarly, does the modern stage of religious evolution represent some sort of liberal Protestant outlook of the early 1960s?
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		The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics) by Max Weber
		The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Max Weber
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