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The Capitalist Future: A Consequence Of Calvinist Annunciation
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In his work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber
predicts that the future will be a world of "mechanized perfection" devoid of
"religious and ethical meaning." In this world modern capitalism becomes a self
sustaining sy .... Middle of Term Paper
... decrees that God has already picked out who those "predestined
into everlasting life" (100) and those "foreordained to everlasting death"
(100). Calvinists also believe that God, a distant "grand conception" (164) who
is "beyond all human comprehension," (164) is unreachable. Both these beliefs
together eliminated any possibility of appeasing God through service or
sacrifice. The answer to the question whether believers were the chosen or the
damned could thus neither be influenced nor known. If, however, one turned his
work into a 'calling,' restricting any desire to wasteful pleasure, he could
experience a feeling of assurance that he is ... |
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