Revisiting Max Weber's Ethic of Responsibility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revisiting Max Weber's Ethic of Responsibility write by Etienne de Villiers. This book was released on 2018-02-20. Revisiting Max Weber's Ethic of Responsibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To what extent could Max Weber's ethic of responsibility serve as a model for us today? An adequate answer to this question could only be given on the basis of a satisfactory interpretation and thorough assessment of his ethic of responsibility. In this monograph Etienne de Villiers sets himself the task of doing just that. He establishes that, in spite of serious shortcomings, Weber's ethic points to the contemporary need for an ethic of responsibility as a second-level normative ethical approach that would address the undermining effect of modernisation on ethical living. Such a contemporary ethic of responsibility would provide guidelines on how ethical living could be responsibly enhanced in our time. The author also presents a brief proposal on how a contemporary ethic of responsibility might be designed.
Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic'
Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic' write by Peter Ghosh. This book was released on 2018-01-26. Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic: Twin Histories presents an entirely new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, as its central point of reference. It offers an intellectual biography of Weber framed along historical lines - something which has never been done before. It re-evaluates The Protestant Ethic — a text surprisingly neglected by scholars — supplying a missing intellectual and chronological centre to Weber's life and work. Peter Ghosh suggests that The Protestant Ethic is the link which unites the earlier (pre-1900) and later (post-1910) phases of his career. He offers a series of fresh perspectives on Weber's thought in various areas — charisma, capitalism, law, politics, rationality, bourgeois life, and (not least) Weber's unusual religious thinking, which was 'remote from god' yet based on close dialogue with Christian theology. This approach produces a convincing view of Max Weber as a whole; while previously the sheer breadth of his intellectual interests has caused him to be read in a fragmentary way according to a series of specialized viewpoints, this volume seeks to put him back together again as a real individual.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism write by Max Weber. This book was released on 2012-04-19. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Author's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs of faith and salvation.
Max Weber and the Moral Dimensions of Politics as a Vocation
Max Weber and the Moral Dimensions of Politics as a Vocation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Max Weber and the Moral Dimensions of Politics as a Vocation write by Geneviève Brassard. This book was released on 2012. Max Weber and the Moral Dimensions of Politics as a Vocation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Weber's discussion of ethics in his famous lecture (and then essay) Politics as a Vocation (1919) clearly indicates that two possible ethical stances, the ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility, are rooted in 'distinct and irreconcilably opposed principles'. Throughout Politics as a Vocation, it is the ethic of responsibility that appears to be endorsed by Weber as suited for political life. Yet, Weber concludes his essay by claiming that a combined ethic is ideal for a political vocation. This makes Weber's position regarding the ideal ethical stance for a man who has a 'true political calling' appear contradictory: the ethics are opposites but somehow to be combined. Commentators have mostly concluded that, for Weber, the ethic of responsibility is the ideal ethic for politics. That appears further in accord with the fact that a key concern of the speech in its historical context was to warn political students of the dangers associated with an ethic of conviction. Weber, as a realist, was especially critical of a stance that disregarded the corrupted nature of the world, which the ethic of responsibility alone seems to accept. Politicians with single-minded convictions were responsible for Germany's political stalemate, supporting the fact that the ethic of conviction should not be deemed acceptable in politics. And yet there is much this position neglects by opting for only one of the two ethics, by concluding that only the ethic of responsibility is appropriate for political vocation. My thesis offers something different; something I admit is ambitious. What I propose is the synthesis of the opposition, of finding a way to combine the two irreconcilably opposed ethics.
The Max Weber Dictionary
The Max Weber Dictionary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Max Weber Dictionary write by Richard Swedberg. This book was released on 2016-09-07. The Max Weber Dictionary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Max Weber is one of the world's most important social scientists, but he is also one of the most notoriously difficult to understand. This revised, updated, and expanded edition of The Max Weber Dictionary reflects up-to-the-moment threads of inquiry and introduces the most recent translations and references. Additionally, the authors include new entries designed to help researchers use Weber's ideas in their own work; they illuminate how Weber himself thought theorizing should occur and how he went about constructing a theory. More than an elementary dictionary, however, this work makes a contribution to the general culture and legacy of Weber's work. In addition to entries on broad topics like religion, law, and the West, the completed German definitive edition of Weber's work (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe) necessitated a wealth of new entries and added information on topics like pragmatism and race and racism. Every entry in the dictionary delves into Weber scholarship and acts as a point of departure for discussion and research. As such, this book will be an invaluable resource to general readers, students, and scholars alike.
