Re: Fundamentalism in America
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Weber ProtestantEth&SpirCaptlsm 1904..30 trTalcParsons 0-415-25406-x
p26 The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely
essential feeling of obligation to one's job, are here most often combined
with a strict economy wgich calculated the possibility of high earnings, and
a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance
p37 And the joy and pride of having given employment to numerous people,
of having had a part in the economic progress of his home town in the sense
referring to figures of population and volume of trade which capitalism
associated with the word, all these things obviously are part of the specific
and undoubtedly inealistic satisfactions in life to modern men of business
p41 renunciation of the duties of this world as the product of
selfishness, withdrawing from temporal obligations. In contrast, labour in a
calling appears to him as the outward expression of brotherly love.. moral
justification of worldly activity.. worlds removed from the deep [Catholic]
hatred.. for all worldly activity, which he was deeply convinced could only
be understood in terms of vanity or low cunning
p64 Brotherly love, since it may be practised for the glory of God and not
in the service of flesh, is expressed in the first place in the fulfilment of
the daily tasks.. peculiarly objective and impersonal character, that of
service in the interest of the rational organization of our social
environment.. labour in the service of impersonal social usefulness appear
to promote the glory of God
p69 however useless good works might be a a means of attaining salvation,
for even the elect remain beings of the flesh, and everything they do falls
infiniteyl short of divine standards, nevertheless, they are indispensable as
a sign of election.. technical means, not of purchasing salvation, but of
getting rid of the fear of damnation.. helps those who help themselves..
systematic self-control which at every moment stands before the inexorable
alternative
p74 Sebastian Franck struck the central characteristic of this type of
religion when he saw the significance of the Reformation in the fact that now
every Christian had to be a monk all his life. The drain of asceticism from
everyday worldly life had been stopped by a dam, and those passionately
spiritual natures which had formerly supplied the highest type of monk were
now forced to pursue their ideals within mundane occupations
p104 [Cromwellian Puritan Baxter] Waste of time is thus the first and in
principle the deadliest of sins. The span of human life is infinitely short
and precious to make sure of one's own election. Loss of time through
sociability, idle talk, luxury, even more sleep than is necessary for health,
six at most eight hours, is worthy of absolute moral condemnation
p107 True to the Puritan tendency to pragmatic interpretations, the
providential purpose of the division of labour is to be known by its
fruits. On this point Baxter expresses himself in terms which more that
directly recall Adam Smith's well-known apotheosis of the division of
labour. The specialization of occupations leads, since it makes the
development of skill possible, to a quantitative and qualitative improvement
in production, and thus serves the common good, which is identical with the
good of the greatest possible number
p110 Old Testament morality was able to give a powerful impetus to that
spirit of self-righteousness and sober legality which was so characteristic
of the worldly asceticism of thi sform of Protestantism.. characterize the
basic ethical tendency of Puritanism, especially in England, as English
Hebraism they are, correctly understood
p112 Impulsive enjoyment of life, which leads away both from work in a
calling and from religion, was as such the enemy of rational asceticism,
whether in the form of seigneurial sports, or the enjoyment of the dance-hall
or the public-house of the common man
p115 But this irrational use [of wealth] was exemplified in th eoutward
forms of luxury which their code condemned as idolatry of the flesh, however
natural they had appeared to the feudal mind. On the other hand, they
approved the rational and utilitarian uses of wealth which were willed by God
for the needs of the individual and the community
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