Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id GAA05415 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 31 May 2000 06:21:34 +0100 Message-ID: <005901bfcabf$dbb99480$3b2484d8@default> From: "Anne Hansen" <tazzie@bolian.upnaway.com> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <392D46A0.928A1C7B@mediaone.net> <00052621145200.00626@faichney> <3932DB91.8A7B87F3@mediaone.net> <000f01bfc9e7$8e1914e0$392484d8@default> <393381E5.2E285BED@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: Cui bono, Chuck? Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:19:04 +0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> I don't know anything up on the web on the subject, and I doubt if there
is. I
> suggest that you start by reading the sociologist Max Weber's stuff on the
> development of the protestant ethic - in its original. Keep in mind that
he was
> wrong on one major aspect: he assumes that the protestant ethic came first
and
> created capitalism.
I understood that Webber did not believe that the protestant ethic
was the only cause of the rise of capitalism, just acknowledged it as a
powerful force.
In fact, there was a dialectic relationship between the
> developing economy and the emerging protestant ethic. He took his
position,
> however, specifically to counter the Marxist approach. But from a cultural
> perspective, his work is excellent in showing how the culture developing
to
> accomodate capitalism was a practical effort to develop the conceptual
tools
> necessary to live in a capitalist society.
>
I found this paragraph very true of where we have arrived today!
"No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether
at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise,
or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals or, if neither,
mechanized petrification embellished with a sort of convulsive
self-importance. For of the last stage of this cultural development, it
might well be truly said: 'Specialists without spirit, sensualists without
heart; this nullity imagines that it has obtained a level of civilization
never before achieved'" (1904/1930, p. 182).
Anne...
> >
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