RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Get Busy, Protestant Work Ethic, Early Christianity
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He doesn"t ague it"s a cause, but protestantism generates certain religious values and conduct where they tend to go with the new emerging economic system. Protestantism doesn"t legitimate capitalism, but they will have a spill over effect. Weber was interested in how religions connect up with economic activity. He saw in franklin this combination of protestant ethic and a spirit of capitalism. You couldn"t be a capitalist in franklin"s sense if you didn"t live that moral life. Saw capitalism as being in the human drama a dramatic change and usher in the new world. Because capitalism arose in the western europe it proved crucial how the europeans became global powers. He will trace it back to the rise of capitalism, and technology. He gets the idea from reading scripture. God imply some of these things o happen and his reflection on the notion of god.
