The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: And Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Max Weber

Author:Max Weber
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Politics & Social Sciences, Ethics & Morality, Church & State, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Religion, Sociology, Religious Studies & Reference, Politics & State, World, Religion & Spirituality, Religious, Social Sciences, History
ISBN: 9781101098479
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2002-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

The question of toleration is basically no different from the modern “liberal” idea. The religious foundation of the principle of rejection of all human authorities as “idolatry” and a devaluation of the absolute subjection of the will which is due to God alone and his law (which was found in its most uncompromising form in the Quakers, and in a milder form in all ascetic sects)—this positive religious motivation for “hostility to authority” was the historically decisive “psychological” basis for “liberty” in the Puritan countries. However highly one may rate the historical significance of the “Enlightenment,” its ideals of liberty lacked that foundation in those positive motive forces which were necessary to secure their continued existence and which were similar to those that gave Gladstone’s political work its “constructive” character. It is well known that Jellinek’s “Erklärung der Men schenrechte” is fundamental for understanding the history of the emergence and political significance of “freedom of conscience.” I, too, am indebted to this work for inspiring me to take up the study of Puritanism once again.

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