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| Protestant ethics: The Protestant ethic, in Max Weber's view, is a set of values and beliefs that emphasize hard work, frugality, and self-discipline. Weber argued that these values were conducive to the rise of capitalism, as they encouraged people to accumulate wealth and invest it in businesses. See also Ethics, Ethics of conviction, Capitalism, Labour._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Herbert Marcuse on Protestant Ethics - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas III 320 Protestant Ethics/Rationalization/MarcuseVsWeber, Max/Marcuse/Habermas: Marcuse objects to Weber whether the instability he observes in a rationalized society is not due to the fact that capitalist development permits only a limited form of post-traditional orientations for action, which promotes a pattern of rationalisation according to which cognitive-instrumental rationality penetrates into other areas of life beyond the economy and the state and takes precedence there at the expense of moral-practical and aesthetic-practical rationality.(1) >Rationality, >Procedural Rationality, >Rationalization, >M. Weber, >Instrumental Reason. 1. H. Marcuse, Industrialisierung und Kapitalismus in: O. Stammer (Hg.) Max Weber und die Soziologie heute, Tübingen 1965 S. 161ff._____________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. |
Marcuse, Herbert 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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