Talk:The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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[edit] Petty and Buckle

Any ideas who Petty and Buckle are? I was compiling the info from a book, but it has just the surnames... --Piotrus 15:30, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Most likely William Petty but I have no way of being certain.

Munkee 08:31, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sir William Petty was referenced on pg 179 of "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" in regards to his opinion on Calvinists and Baptists, and Henry Thomas Buckle is listed in the index of the protestant ethic has having a reference to pg 44. It reads - "For Scotland, Buckle, and among English poets, Keats, have emphasized these same relationships." -SubjectiveAnalysis 08:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Why has this article been moved from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism to The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (book)? Correct me if I'm wrong but adding something like "(book)" to the end of a title is for disambiguation. Is there another The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism? Iota 19:16, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Still with working redirects I don't there is any problem, and eventually they may be a disambig to a more general discussion on that subject, I guess. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:11, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It seems a pointless move, to me. Noisy | Talk 01:50, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)

I moved it back. Even if we were to create an article on this topic, it would be at The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (lowercase) or something similar. Guanaco 02:53, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Complementing the suggestion for change lowercase the title, I would suggest that spirit figure between quotes, as original ("geist"). The missing signal reduces slightly the meaning of capitalism essence as a "spirit".

[edit] 1926

I changed 1930 to 1926 based upon

"Often contemptuous shortened form Prot is from 1725, in Irish English. Protestant (work) ethic (1926) is taken from Max Weber's work "Die protestantische Ethik und der 'Geist' des Kapitalismus" (1904)."

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=protestant++&searchmode=none

That seems to run contradictory to the 1958 edition of the book, on the Preface to the New Edition section (xiii) which lists "When the English Translation first appeared, in England in 1930..." as written by Talcott Parsons, September 1958

and is also listed here http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WEBER/header.html

[edit] Talcott Parsons

What about a Reference to Talcott Parsons as the english translator? Does that merit submission? -SubjectiveAnalysis 08:31, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I think it does.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  15:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assurance of Salvation

I'd have to disagree with the statement that Catholics (Roman) have an assurance of salvation - quite the opposite actually and that's the whole point of the Catholic faith and the reason for their sacraments and continued attendance at mass and the final rites and prayers for the dead (and the Reformation). Protestants have assurance of salvation in a sense but Calvinists are in a peculiar situation as the doctrine of TULIP means that on the one hand they have assurance but on the other they are not allowed to take anything for granted and must prove that they have been saved by their fruits. This puts them in a situation of deep insecurity and in my opinion (speaking as an ex-Catholic and an ex-Calvinist) this is was the great force in the genesis of the work ethic. Nodolan 11:29, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] reference on work as a burden or curse

I'm curious as to where is this taken from "The most common tendencies were the greed for profit with minimum effort and the idea that work was a curse and burden to be avoided especially when it exceeded what was enough for modest life." can't find it in the book. 89.138.62.183 (talk) 18:12, 22 March 2008 (UTC)