HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Escape From Freedom, Protestant Work Ethic, Calvinism
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Carl marx is living in a time when everything is changing. Thought the working class would overthrown the elite class. Weber argues that religious ideas forms the basis for the capitalist economic system. Marx says that ideas come from the economic base- the modes of production. Weber is flipping marx"s ideas on their head. Traditional economic ethic: making money is sinful, one works only enough to have enough money to eat, live and be merry. Idea that before you are born, god has destined you to heaven or hell. Calvinists believe that nothing that they do in the world will make a difference but it causes them anxiety since they don"t know if they are saved. Calvinists believe that hard work, rationalism, and frugality are moral virtues. This ethic is a fundamental shift in the traditional economic ethic. One of the philosophical questions humans have always asked is who am i.
