L' etica protestante e lo spirito del capitalismo

Protestantism is ballin'. Amazing how much this book is about the hustler spirit: dude who'd buy in bulk, talk to his customers and push volume, figure out how to innovate to make a better product. Break with tradition. And apparently protestant women are very best at innovating, so says Weber. Weber Leggi tutto

One of the central disputes in Protestantism had long been that between the Calvinists and the Arminians. The Calvinist believed that every person had been chosen by God in the beginning to be either saved or damned, and that there was nothing anybody could do to change his decision. These “elect” i Leggi tutto

We don't popularly associate capitalism with the religious idea of "asceticism" today, thinking of it more in terms of conspicuous consumption and vulgar materialism if anything. In this classic essay by Max Weber however, he lays out how the foundations of modern capitalism were actually laid in Pr Leggi tutto

For years we have been assaulted by politicians and religious leaders preaching the Christian "work ethic," yet I find little justification, if any, for the concept anywhere in the New Testament. I happened to be discussing this with my dad a while ago, who also happens to be one of the smartest peo Leggi tutto

با توجه به اطلاعات بسیار کمی که درخصوص پروتستانیسم و موضوعات مربوطه داشتم درک این کتاب برایم سخت بود. موضوعات متعددی در این زمینه مطرح شد که خیلی از آنها رو متوجه نشدم اما در مجموع بحثهای مربوط به تکلیف و ریاضت‌گرایی و نگاه به کار کردن در دیدگاه‌های مختلف مسیحی در عین متعادل مصرف کردن که نتیجه‌اش می Leggi tutto

Weber flips Marx - as Marx flipped Hegel - and makes the argument that there is an ideological/religious influence on capitalism and economics. The protestants (in particular the Calvinists and other ascetic branches), in their quest to overcome the uncertainties of predestination, engage in work an Leggi tutto