This post is about an early Twitter review I did on Max Weber's treatise The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
I did this Twitter review on November 2, 2012.
Unlike many of my Twitter reviews, this review was not done in thread form, but was done in separate tweets.
I have posted the individual tweets here, to make it easier for people to read.
T1. Finished reading The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber. Roots profit from exchange in rational asceticism.
T2. Max Weber seems to say that the rational division of labor in capitalism comes from the rational developments in Protestantism.
T3. Max Weber says that the purpose of religion, from the very beginning, has been to remove magic from morality.
T4. Weber says Protestantism, especially Calvinism, removes magic and replaces it with predestination. One either is or isn't going to Heaven.
T5. Weber says in Protestantism, all men consider themselves saved. To prove their faith, not to save themselves, they do good works.
T6. Early on, Max Weber says that this "calling" is something irrational that arises out of rationalism. I like that idea a lot.
T7. Weber also says that no moral development has a greater value or greater rational structure. Cultures develop different rational endpoints.
T8. Weber ends by questioning whether we've become too rational. Rationality has erased God. Will it now erase men? Or men's will and drive?
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