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| World negation: Max Weber's concept of "world negation" refers to certain religious or philosophical attitudes that devalue or reject material pursuits and worldly affairs in favor of spiritual or transcendental concerns. See also Religion, Religious belief, Transcendentals._____________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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Max Weber on World Negation - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas III 283 World Negation/World Affirmation/Religion/Max Weber/Habermas: Max Weber distinguishes religions according to whether they motivate world affirmation or rejection of the world as a whole. "The world" is the name of the society and the surrounding nature of the believer. It is a question of whether or not it is basically evaluated positively or negatively, provided with an intrinsic value. >Religion, >Religious belief. Only through dualism, which characterizes the radical redemption religions, a negative attitude towards the world becomes possible. The corresponding world view must be of such a structure that the "world" is either regarded as historically transitory in relation to a Creator God, or is devalued as merely a phenomenal foreground in relation to the very essence of all things. In this case, as a reference point for the search for salvation, a reality behind the world is assumed that has itself sunk to a semblance. >Metaphysics, >Appearance, >Reality, >Belief. Habermas III 284 World denial: for them Weber offers a sociological explanation, namely the social conflicts that make the appearance of prophets possible. Religious worldviews: Weber differentiates according to the following criteria: Cosmocentric - theocentric Affirmative - negative. Judaism/Christianity: become the negative-theocentric Buddhism/Hinduism: become the negative- cosmocentric Confucianism/Taoism: are among the affirmative cosmocentric religions. >Judaism, >Christianity, >Confucianism. Habermas III 287 World Negation/Weber/Habermas: a negative attitude towards the world (see World Negation/Weber) is not in itself conducive to ethical rationalization of lifestyle. It only leads to an objectification of the world if it is combined with an active, world-affirmative lifestyle. >Rationalization. Habermas III 289 Weber distinguishes mystical religions that are world-negative, such as Hinduism, from ascetic religions that are world-affirmative: Judaism and Christianity. The latter ultimately aim at world domination through inner-worldly action._____________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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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28