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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1930)
by Max Weber, translated by Talcott Parsons
Max Weber4181242The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism1930Talcott Parsons

INDEX

absolution, sacrament of, 116, 134

acquisition, as principle of economic action, 63

acquisition, impulse to, 16, 56

Adams, Thomas, 223, 237, 258, 259, 266, 267

adaption, 72
(see selection)

adiaphora, 256, 274

administration, 25

adventurers, capitalistic, 20, 24, 58, 69, 76, 166, 174, 186, 199, 279

after-life, idea of, 97, 109

Alberti, Leon Battista, 194, 202, 262

Anglican Church, 82, 99, 179

Anthony of Florence, 73, 83, 197, 201, 202

anthropology, 30

Anti-authoritarianism, 167
(see also asceticism)

architecture, in West, 15

aristocracy, antagonism to, 150

aristocracy, commerical, 37, 65, 74

Aristotle, 14, 235, 244, 249

Arminians, 200, 217

Arnold, Matthew, 191, 280

Arnold, Samuel G., 278

art in West, 14

Arte di Calimala, 203

arts, Puritan attitude to, 168, 272

asceticism, anti-authoritarian, tendency of, 167, 255

asceticism, definition of, 193-4

asceticism, monastic, 80, 121, 253-4

asceticism, sexual, 158

asceticism, tendency of capitalism to, 71

asceticism, types of, 118

asceticism, worldly, 149, 154

Ashley, W. J., 280

Augsburg Confession, 102, 206, 209

Augustine, St., 101

Aymon, Jean, 190


Bailry, R., 106, 129, 132, 222, 228, 231, 233, 238, 245, 259

Baird, Henry M., 219

Bank of England, 186

baptism, 145, 222

Barclay, Robert, 148, 156, 171, 252, 257, 269

Barebones, Praisegod, 243

Bartholomew's day, St., 156

Bax, E. Belfort, 253

Baxter, Richard, 106, 155, 181, 218, 244, 226 ff., 245, 259 ff,

Becker, Bernhard, 247

begging, 177, 268

believers' church, 122, 144
(see also sect)

Below, Georg von, 283

Benedict, St., 118

Bernhard, St., 230, 236, 238, 241, 267

Bernhard of Siena, 197, 201, 202

Bernstein, Eduard, 219, 256, 258, 278, 283

Berthold of Regensburg, 208

Beruf, 79, 204 ff.

Beruf, translation of, 194

Beza, Theodore, 110, 230

bibliocracy, 123, 146

Bielschowsky, Albert, 283

Bohemian Brothers, 197

Bonaventura, St., 236, 242, 267

Bonn, M. J., 217

book-keeping, 22, 67

book-keeping, moral, 124, 238

Borinski, Karl, 283

bourgeoise, 23, 24, 176

Brassey, Thomas, 198 Braune, Wilhelm, 207

Brentano, Lujo, 185, 187, 190, 192, 193, 194, 198, 205, 209, 210, 217, 259, 283

Brodnitz, Georg, 203

brotherly love, 81, 108, 163, 226

Brown, John, 219

Browne, John, 243

Bryce, James, 235, 268

Brucer, letter to, 228

Buckle, Henry Thomas, 44

Bhuddhism, 228

Bunyan, John, 107, 124, 176, 223, 227, 230, 234, 259, 271, 280

Busken-Huet, 274, 278

Butler, Samuel, 168


Cæsarism, Puritan immunity to, 224

calling, duty in a, 54, 62

calling, idea of, 79 ff.

Calvin, John, 45, 89
and predestination, 10
attitude to certitudo salutis, 110
attitude toward wealth, 157

Calvinism, social organisation of, 224

Calw, 44

Campbell, Douglas, 218

capital, definition of, 17

capital, origin of, 68

capital, ownership of, 36

capitalism, concept of, 16

Cato, 195, 201

Cavaliers, 88, 169

certitudo salutis, 110, 114-15, 129, 133, 139-40, 203, 226, 229, 272

charisma, 178, 281

Charles I, 166

Charnock, Stuart, 231, 232, 235, 238, 259

Chillingworth, William, 127

chosen people, belief in, 166
(see also elect)

Christopher, Duke of Würtemberg, 268

Cicero, 205

Cistercians, 118

Cluny, Monks of, 118

Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 43

Columella, 196

comfort, idea of, 11

commenda, 17, 20, 58

Communion, admission to, 111, 155

confession, 106, 124, 134, 137, 153

confessions, Baptist, 231
(see also Dordrecht, Westmunster, Augsburg, Hanserd Knolly)

Congregationalists, 217

consilia evangelica, 80, 120, 137

contemplation, 26, 112, 158, 159, 212

conventicles, 130, 131, 167, 245

conversion, 140

Corinthians, 1st Epistle to the, 84, 164, 206, 208, 214

Cornelius, Carl Adolf, 253, 255

counterpoint, 14

Court, Peter de la, 177

Cramer, S., 257

Canmer, Thomas, 210

creation, joy of, 282

Cromwell, Richard, 251

Crosby, Thomas, 235

Cunningham, William, 280


Da Costa, 226

Defoe, Daniel, 180, 280

Deissmann, Adolf, 209

democracy, 224

Denifle, Heinrich, 211

Deventer, Provincal Synod of, 260

Dexter, H. M., 219, 252, 274

Dieterich, A., 205 dilettantes, 29

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 209

Dippel, Johann Conrad, 248

discipline. Church, 97, 152, 155, 178

discipline, monastic, 174

distribution of goods, unequal, 177

Divine Comedy, 87

Döllinger, Johann Joseph Iquaz von, 107

domestic industry, 21, 192

Dordrecht, Synod of, 99, 102, 226, 240

Dowden, Edward, 176, 221, 222, 258, 270, 275

Doyle, John Andrew, 172, 219, 278

Dunckards, 150


Eck Bible translation, 10

Economic interpretation of History (see Materialism, historical)

education and capitalism, 38

Eger, Karl, 211

elect, aristocracy of, 104, 121, 122, 131-8, 151, 242

elect, membership in, 110

emotion, emphasis on, 131, 135, 138-40

Enlightenment, The, 45, 70, 106 182

Entzauberung der Welt, 221
(see also magic, elimination of)

Erastianism, 217

d'Este, Renata, 237

Ethnography, 29

experiment, method of, 13


faith, justification by, 112, 114

faith, results of, 114
(see also proof)

fatalism, 131, 232

feudal state, 16 feudalism, 185

Fieschi, 235

Firth, Charles Harding, 219, 236

Fleischütz, Bible translator, 207

formalism, as characteristic of Puritanism, 166

Fox, George, 89, 146, 148, 253, 266

Francis of Assissi, 120, 146, 254

Franciscans, 253

Franck, Sebastian, 121, 220

Francke, August Hermann, 132-3, 138, 246

Franklin, Benjamin, 48, 50, 64, 71, 82, 124, 151, 158, 180, 192, 195, 263

Frederick, Henry, Stadholder, 273

Frederick William I, 44, 250

Freytag, Gustav, 242

Froude, James Anthony, 223

Fruin, Robert, 219, 278

Fugger, Jacob, 51, 192

Fuggers, 82, 202, 213

Fuller, Thomas, 231

Funck, 201


Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, 213, 219, 272

Gerhard, Johannes, 229

Gerhard, Paul, 88

Giles, St., 146

God, Calvinistic conception of, 103

Goethe, Wolfgang, 151, 181, 261, 277

Goodwin, John, 246

Gorichem, Synod of, 260

Gothein, Eberhard, 43

Grab, Hermann von, 222

Grubbe, Edward, 253


Haller, Albertus, 274

Hals, Frans, 273

handicrafts, 21, 38, 65

Hanna, C. A., 189 Hanserd Knolly, Confession of, 125, 220, 221, 225, 231, 257

harmony, 14

Harnack, Adolf, 262

Hasbach, Wilhelm, 198

Hebrews, 265
(see Jews)

Heidegger, Johann Heinrich, 228

Heine, Heinrich, 280

Hellpach, W., 244

Henry, Matthew, 238, 259, 261

Heppe, Heinrich Ludwig, 221, 228, 247

heredity, influence of, 30, 279

Hermelink, Heinrich, 283

Herrnhut, 135, 248

Hertling, Georg von, 188

historical individual, 47

Hoenicke, 238

Hoffmann, 255

honesty, best policy, 282

Honigsheim, Paul, 212, 222, 226, 229

Hooker, Richard, 127

Hoops, Johannes, 207

Hoornbeek, J., 221, 223, 228, 232, 234, 259

Howe, Daniel Wait, 219

Howe, John, 237, 251, 259

Hudibras, 235
(see also Bulter)

Hugenots, 39, 43, 201

Humiliati, 254

Hundeshagen, Carl Bernhard, 226

Huntingdon, Lady, 125

Huss, John, 95, 198

Hutchinson, Colonel John, 275

Huyghens, Constantine, 274


ideal type, 71, 98, 200

idolatry of the flesh, 105, 146, 150, 169, 171, 224, 266, 270, 272-3

Ignatius, St., 119

Independents, 99, 122, 217, 242

India, religious teaching of, 265

individualism, 105, 222

indulgence, 120

industria, 73, 196, 197

inner light, doctrine of, 147

institution for salvation, church as, 227

interest, prohibition of, 73, 201

interests, capitalistic, influence of, 24

Irving, Washington, 261, 275

isolation, of individual, 108


Jacoby, Ludwig S., 250

Jains, 191, 197, 228

James I, 99, 166

James, William, 232

Janeway, James, 259, 268

Jansenists, 221, 222, 229

Jaspers, Karl, 186

Jerome, St., 205

Jesuits, 81, 118, 124, 267, 274, 277

Jesus, 83

Jews as minorities, 39, 191

Jews as representing adventurer's capitalism, 186, 271

Jews, problem of, 187, 197

Jews, Puritans' relation to, 165, 180

Jews, rationalization of, 117, 222

Job, Book of, 164

Jones, Rufus B., 253

joy of living, 41, 42, 45

joy of living, relation of Puritanism to, 163, 166-7, 173

Judaism (see Jews)

Jülicher, A., 214

Jüngst, Johannes, 251


Kampschulte, F. Wilhelm, 218

Kant, Immanuel, 270

Kattenbusch, Ferdinand, 255

Kautsky, Karl, 258

Keats, John, 44, 270

Keller, F., 191, 200, 284

Keller, Gottfried, 107 Kierkegaard, Soren, 109

Klages, Ludwig, 186

de Kock, 226

Knolley, Hanserd (see Hanserd Knolley)

Knox, John, 45, 219

Koehler, Walther, 211

Koester, A., 211

Köhler, August, 219, 226, 247, 269

Kolde, Theodor, 251

Kommanditgesellschaft, 20

Köstlin, Julius, 221

Kürnberger, Ferdinand, 50


Labadie, Jean de, 240, 241, 245

laboratory, modern, 13

labour, division of, 81, 160, 161

labour, rational, capitalistic organization of, 21, 22, 24, 166

labour, valuation of, 158

Lambeth Article, 220

Lamprecht, Karl, 244, 248

Lang, J. C, 252

Laud, Bishop William, 179, 213

Lavelye, Émile, 191

law, canon, 14, 73

law, mosaic, 123, 165, 271

law, natural (see lex naturœ)

law, rational structure of, 25

law, Roman, 14, 77

Lenau, Nicolaus, 192

Leonard, Ellen M., 268

Levy, Hermann, 213, 217, 268, 279, 281, 282

lex naturœ, 109, 114, 211, 256, 270

liberum arbitrium, 57, 77

Liguori, Alfonso of, 107

literature, Puritan attitude to, 168

Lobstein, Paul, 229

Lodensteyn, Jodocus van, 241

Loofs, Friedrich, 250, 252

Lorimer, G., 253

Löscher, Valentine Ernest, 246

Luthardt, Christoph Ernst, 214

Luther, use of "calling," 164, 204 ff.

Lutheranism, ethical theory of, 238

Lutheranism, moral helplessness of, 126

Lutheranism, relation to Pietism, 95

Lutheranism, relation to world, 87, 160

Lutheranism, traditionalistic tendency of, 86

Lutheranism and Predestination, 102


Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 219, 220, 223, 280

Machiavelli, Nicolo, 14, 107

magic, elimination of, 105, 117, 149

Magna Charta, 217

Maliniak, J., 200

Manley, Thomas, 280

manors, 21

Marcks, Erich, 218

marriage, Puritan conception of, 158, 263

masserizia, 195

Masson, David, 219, 220

materialism, historical, 24, 55, 75, 90-2, 183, 266, 277

Maurenbrecher, Max, 211

Maurice of Orange, 235

Meissner, Balthasar, 229

Melancthon, Philip, 102, 227, 239, 244

Menno, Simons, 89, 145

Mennonites, 44, 144, 149, 150, 217, 255, 256, 257

mercantilism, 23, 152, 197, 242

Merx, Albrecht, 203, 204, 208

Milton, John, 87, 101, 220, 267

minorities, 39, 190

Mirbt, Carl, 242

missionary, 136, 225

monasticism, 118, 119, 158, 174 money-lenders, 20

monopolies, 65, 82, 179, 271

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de, 45

Moravians, 96, 135

Mormons, 264

Motley, John Lothrop, 219

Müller, Karl, 219, 253, 255

Münster, 149, 253

Murch, J., 253

music, 14

Muthmann, 223

mystics, German, 79, 86, 112, 132


Naber, 219

Neal, David, 235

needs, satisfaction of, 63

Neumann, Carl, 273, 275

Newman, A. H., 253

Nicklaes, Hendrik, 269

Nicolai, Philip, 229

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 232

Nuyens, W. J. F., 219, 221


official, 16

Offenbacher, Martin, 188

oikos, 22

Old Testament, 123

Oldenbarneveld, Joan van, 99

Olevianus, Kaspar, 221, 228

organization, capitalistic forms of, 64, 67

organization. Church, 128

organization, social, superiority of Calvinism in, 108

orphans, Amsterdam, 226

ostentation, avoidance of, 71

otherworldliness, 40, 41, 42, 118, 145

Owen, John, 237


Parker, 179

Parsees, 191

parvenus, 65, 71, 163, 268

Pascal, Blaise, 81, 113, 211 222, 227, 229

Paterson, William, i86

Paul, St., 84, 159, 160, 212

Petty, Sir William, 43, 179, 189, 279, 282

piece-rates, 59

Pierson, Allard, 219

Pietism, 42

Plitt, Hermann, 247

Plutarch, 236

Polenz, Gottlob van, 219

Poor relief, English, 178

poverty, glorification of, 136

Prætorius, Abdias, 229

Praxis pietatis, 129, 130

Precisians, 117

predestination, doctrine of, 98 ff., 109 ff., 121, 125, 128, 131, 143, 148, 226, 227, 232

Presbyterians, 125, 146

Price, Thomas, 219

Prinsterer, Groen van, 219, 274, 278

printing, 15

privileges, 65

profitableness, as sign of grace, 162

proletariat, 25

proof, doctrine of, 112, 115, 126, 129, 133, 137, 141, 142, 153, 203

Prynne, William, 179, 269

psychology, in sociological investigation, 31, 244

Puritanism, attitude to sensuous culture, 105

Puritanism, definition of, 96

putting-out system, 23, 66, 179


Quakers, 39, 44, 86, 144 ff., 150, 217, 276, 283
(see also Barclay, Robert)


Rabelais, Frangois, 190

Rachfel, Felix, i86

Ranke, Leopold von, 210

rationalism, 26, 40, 75
(see also rationalization) rationalization, 25, 68, 136, 147
(see also rationalism; magic, elimination of)

Rembrandt, 273

Renaissance, Puritan relation to, 168

Rhodes, Cecil, 42

Ritschl, Albrecht, 134, 139, 219, 221, 229, 237, 240, 245, 247, 253, 254, 271

Rogers, Thorold, 280

Roloff, Gustav, 235

romanticism, 71

romanticists, 65

Roosevelt, Theodore, 269

Roundheads, 88

Rowntree, J. A., 283


Sack, Carl Heinrich, 219

sacraments, 104

Salmasius, Claudius, 201

salvation, conditions of, 113

sanctification, 138, 140

sanctions, psychological, 97, 128, 178, 197, 267

Sanford, John Langton, 123, 217, 274

saving, ascetic compulsion to, 172, 276

Savoy Declaration, 114, 125, 231

Schäfer, Dietrich, 222

Schechter, Solomon, 204

Scheibe, Max, 221

Schell, Hermann, 188

Schmoller, Gustav, 214

Schneckenburger, Matthias, 112, 143, 214, 219, 228, 230, 232, 251, 277

Scholasticism, 83, 168
(see also Thomas Aquinas)

Schortinghuis, Wilhelmus, 229, 244

Schulze-Gaevemitz, G. von, 198

Schwenkfeld, Caspar, 146, 256

science, Puritan attitude to, 168, 249

science. Western characteristics of, 13, 15, 24

Scotists, 202

Scotus, Duns, 235

sea loans, 20

sect, distinguished from church, 145, 152, 254
(see also believers' church)

Sedgwick, Obadiah, 228, 231, 234, 259

Söe, Henri, 185

Seeberg, 211, 214, 215, 219, 235

Seiss, J. A., 253

selection, concept of, 55, 72

Seneca, 205

Septuagint, 204

Sermon on the Mount, 250

Shakespeare, William, 274

Simmel, Georg, 185, 193

Sirach, Jesus, 79, 164, 204 ff.

Skeats, Herbert S., 252

Skoptsi, 197

Sloth, 264

Smend, Rudolf, 204

Smith, Adam, 81, 161

socialism, 23

Sombart, Werner, 63, 75, 185, 187, 191, 192, 193-8, 200 ff., 214, 217, 259, 261, 271, 276

South Sea Bubble, 186

Southey, Robert, 251, 280

Spangenberg, A. G., 136, 223, 248

Spener, Philip Jacob, 95, 132-5, 138, 150, 156, 222, 245, 247, 257, 262, 266

Spinoza, Baruch de, 245

Sports, Book of, 166

St. Andre, Dupin de, 190

State, characteristics of, 179

State, modern, 16, 72

Sternberg, H. von, 214

Strieder, Jacob, 284

Stundists, 197


talents, parable of the, 163

Talmud, 83, 165, 207, 270, 277 Tauler, Johannes, 86, 208, 212, 216, 229, 236, 245

Taylor, Hudson, 225

Taylor, J. J., 219

Teellinck, W., 241

Teersteegen, 245

Terminism, doctrine of, 133

theodicy problem, 109

Theophylaktos, 209

Tholuck, A., 240

Thomas, Alton C, 253

Thomas Aquinas, St., 80, 150, 159, 160, 196, 211, 215, 267

Thomas à Kempis, St., 242, 245

Thucydides, 14

time is money, 48, 158

Time, waste of, 157

toleration, idea of, 242

traditionalism, 36, 59 ff., 65 fr., 76, 84, 164, 191, 215, 265, 271

Troeltsch, Ernst, 188, 211, 214, 218, 219, 236, 239, 255, 270, 284

Tyerman, Luke, 251

Tyermans, 218

Tyndale, William, 210


Ullrich, F., 227, 240

uniformity, tendency toward, 169

unio mysrica, 112, 113, 130

Unwin, George, 280

utilitarianism, 52, 81, 109, 126, 161, 176, 183, 196, 265

utilitarianism, hygienic, 263


Van Wyck, A., 227

value, judgments of, 29, 98, 112, 182, 236

Varro, 196

Veblen, Thorstein, 258, 275

Vedder, Henry C, 253

Vischer, F. T., 247

Voët, Gisbert, 45, 218, 234, 241, 259

Voltaire, 77

Vol gate, 205


wages and productivity, 60, 198

Wagner, Richard, 107

Wahl, Adalbert, 191

waiting for Spirit, 148

Ward, Frank G., 214

Warneck, Johannes, 225

Watson, Richard, 251

Watts, Isaac, 251

wealth, temptations of, 156, 172, 174

wealth, uses approved by Puritans, 171

Weingarten, H., 219, 277

Wesley, John, 89, 125, 135, 140, 142, 175, 218, 227, 251

Westminster Confession, 99, 220, 228, 244

Westminster, Synod of, 99, 102, 156, 226

Whitaker, W., 242

White, G., 246, 268

Whitefield, George, 125, 251

William of Orange, 242

Williams, Roger, 243

Windelband, Wilhelm, 236, 249, 283

Wiskemann, Heinrich, 214

Wittich, W., 190

Wolff, Christian, 263

workers, women, 62

works, good, 115, 117, 148

works, salvation by, 115, 116, 141, 143, 150

Wupperthal, 44

Wyclif, John, 198, 203, 210


Xenophon, 196


Zeller, 226

Zinzendorf, Count Nicolaus, 95, 132, 134, 138, 143, 178, 248, 264

Zwingli, Ullrich, 87

Zwinglianism, 217