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Injustice: Injustice is a lack of fairness. It can occur when people are denied their rights, or discriminated against. It can manifest itself in poverty, crime, racism, sexism, and homophobia, in unjust laws or policies. See also Justice, Community, Society, Politics, Rights, Law.
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Max Weber on Injustice - Dictionary of Arguments

Habermas III 281
Injustice/Religion/Weber/Habermas: Weber: The world religions try to "satisfy the rational interest in material and ideal balance" by explanations that increasingly meet systematic demands.(1)
>Suffering
, >Society, >Religion, >Religious belief,
>Worldviews, >Explanation, >Justification, >Ultimate justification.
III 282
Western Strategy/Weber: uses the concept of an otherworldly, personal Creator God. ("God of action")
Cf. >Western rationalism, >Christianity, >Judaism, >Calvinism.
Eastern Strategy/Weber: starts from the idea of an impersonal, uncreated cosmos. (Divine order).(2)
Cf. >Confucianism.
The believer must adopt a different attitude, once as an instrument of God, once as a vessel of the divine.(3)

1. M. Weber, Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie, Vol. I Tübingen, 1963, p. 253.
2. M. Weber, Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie, Vol. II Tübingen, 1966, p. 173ff
3. M. Weber, Ibid. Vol. I p. 257.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Weber I
M. Weber
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - engl. trnsl. 1930
German Edition:
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus München 2013

Ha I
J. Habermas
Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988

Ha III
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981

Ha IV
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981


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