WEBER RELIG UNMUSICALITY

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DEF OF RELIG UNMUSICAL

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an exemplary embodiment of a psychological condition of estrangement and non-hostility towards religion and spirituality

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MAIN UNDERMINE OF RELIG UNMUSICAL

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‘individualised’ value judgements

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HOW UNMUSIC ULTI

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recognises the significance of Protestantism in a historic and universal sense in the contribution to modern Kultur
through empirical study. -discuss Social attitudes of pro sects which have more force 4 cap than caths for e.g. - based on o/n testament e.g.

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value scheme 4 religious unmusical

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provides an individualised value scheme to solve the question of a secular modern capitalist spirit which has severed from religious impulse

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mod context 4 unmusicality

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Weber’s ‘unmusicality’ allows him to promote the loss of a ‘religious root’ in a way unalike his contemporaries like Schneckenburger who were bound to religious judgements of Lutheranism and Protestantism

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debatable/ problematic unmusicality Y?

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individualised ethical premise which finds difficulty to reconcile with his ‘purely objective’ interdisciplinary and empirical approach - TO EXTENT HIS COMMENTARY ON PROT ATTITUDES (WHICH CLAIM 2 FUEL CAP) FRAMED WITHIN OWN G PROT CONTEXT

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MW relationship w Christianity

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‘complex relationship with Christianity’
Max Weber. Werk und Person, Baumgarten
one that existed nonetheless

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‘heroic antagonism’ closely tied to a practical interest in?

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contemporary German Protestantism and had a close engagement with Church politics

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MW participated in?

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The Protestant Social Congress before 1909

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after membership of PSC declined, continued 2?

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support church political activities initiated by liberal Protestant university theologians, signing appeals for liturgical and cultural reform in the Prussian Church in 1894
Osterhammel, W. J. Mommsen and Jürgen: Max Weber and His Contemporaries

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quote about mw imp of christianity 2 mod life

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letter to his brother in March 1884. He argues ‘everything that we nowadays assemble under the name of ‘our kultur’ is based in the first instance of Christianity … everything we do and think, we stand under the influence of the Christian religion -
does not charge his argument with a religious ‘musicality’

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Weber wrote religiously charged debates such as

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“A Sketch of Church and Social Politics” pertaining not only religious sociology but also a highly personal interpretation of history

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His associations with religious liberals and Protestant theologians such as

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Adalbert Merx and Adolf Deissman also threaten his religiously unmusical approach

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Above all Weber’s own religious beliefs had ? presence in The Protestant Ethic

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little
his impartiality conveyed in his interdisciplinary dealings with the various Christian sects highlights the ‘religiously unmusical’ approach to his argument of The Protestant Ethic

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not predominantly his interest in religious ideas or dogmatic systems that charged his argument - instead, w sought for…

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a connection between religious thought and cultural models’, thus making The Protestant Ethic religiously impartial

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HOW DOES his argument B heavily dependent of the ‘objective possibility’ of religion to “gain insight” into the “causal ‘significance” of religion serving for the rise of capitalism

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argues that “history has to do exclusively with the causal explanation of those ‘elements’ and ‘aspects’ of the event in question”

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In order to gain insight into real causal connections Weber constructs ‘unreal ones’ to?

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objectify religious ideas of the time, whilst aiming to elucidate the importance of those for contemporary Kultur

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Weber strives and above all succeeds in attaining a ‘purely historical discussion’PE - imp 4?

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historiographical ‘scientific’ approach

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, his own thought was not ‘religiously unmusical’, yet Weber was able to separate this from his argument in The Protestant Ethic to

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construct a religiously ambivalent/indifferent argument - analysis of sects of christianity scales of influence on rise of cap

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Weber argues that all previous history has been ‘musically religious’ and he regards the musical religious status then as

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historically normal

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However, he then argues that in the 20th century moderns are not religiously musical and in some sense the secularisation need for personal fix in the modern world has been superseded by

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by impersonal structures which enforce codes of behaviour

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Thus, Weber endeavours in his argument of The Protestant Ethic to write a history which is religiously unmusical to suit and thus inform the present as

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a religiously musical history would not be suitable

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how does he try 2b religious unmusical - Weber’s Protestant Ethic - Roth, H. Lehmann and G.

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conveyed in his method ‘of endlessly intertwined causal relations - through a mastery of the source material’

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Weber removes a religious disciplinary approach in his argument in The Protestant Ethic which reflects

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modern Kultur

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Weber analyses each Christian sect not by its doctrines, which would be ‘religiously musical’, but by their

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causal effects on Kultur which is objective -
incorporating a sensitivity to religious values whilst maintaining a conceptually driven commentary based on an empirical and universal historical database

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Thus Weber’s concern for ‘modern kultur’ is founded on his relative religious standpoint, as an

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‘ethical alternative’ to determinist historical philosophies ‘like Marxist materialism or post Darwinian monism’.

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He is not sympathetic to religion which makes him ‘religiously unmusical’ and examines the

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‘purely religious factors’ which he believes drove ‘the modern capitalist culture’

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Although he argues that the Calvinist belief in ‘moral value of hard work’ and the ‘fulfilment of one’s worldly duties’ relates the rise of capitalist economy, he is no

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’specialist’ and refuses to determine an argument that is religiously absolute

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Weber’s ‘best course of action’ is to ‘consider the forms of Protestantism in which a connection between ? and ? can be easily discerned BUT NOT DETERMINED

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practical life and the religious starting point

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makes aware in The Protestant Ethic that ‘there is normally no correlation between the conduct of life and religious principles’, and so makes observations that are

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cautious and based on a vast empirical database
reflects his ethical conception of modern Kultur, in which he argues ‘the kind of people who are inspired by the “capitalist spirit” today tend to be, if not exactly hostile to the Church, then at least indifferent’
ALTHO HIS ARGUMENT DOES NOT ENTIRELY AGREE

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– he ‘does not seek to embody historical reality in abstract generic concepts’, but rather

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‘endeavours to integrate them in concrete configurations’ which are ‘provisional’

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His argument is not religious in itself, and thus ‘religiously unmusical’; instead, The Protestant ethic explores

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historical religious axioms to provide a ‘provisional illustration’ which is religiously indeterminate and ‘unmusical’

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WHY ‘PROVISIONAL’ CONFIGURATIONS IMP FOR ARG

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important for Weber’s aim to provide an argument that ‘is always and inevitably individual in character’, as ‘we cannot determine the object by means of a conceptual “definition”’

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Thus unlike Marx and Darwin, the Weberian argument provides a relative and ‘ethical’ - but not religious and determinate - argument which can be ‘individualised’ by the

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‘specialist’ who is not himself

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social scientist Weber is ‘rational’ in his methodical approach and recognises rationalism …

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ascetic Protestantism

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ascetic as ideal type which he argues drove the inception of the

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Capitalist spirit’ and subsequently modern Kultur

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Yet this is an argument based on an ‘ideal type’ which is in its own sense religiously ‘unmusical’… HOW?

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relative constructs derived from an observable historical reality although not conforming to it absolutely due to deliberate simplification and exaggeration
For example, Weber argues in The Protestant Ethic that ‘puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labour’

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Weber makes powerfully charged arguments through ‘ideal types’ but this is neutralised by

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assuring that they are ‘peripheral and indeed external to the religious consciousness’ Weber, PE, Chapter 3

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ethical not religious justification - the calling

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‘calling’ as he determines ‘the emphasis on the ascetic importance of a fixed calling provided an ethical justification of the modern specialized division of labour’
Weber, PE, Chapter 5

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Whilst appearing as conclusive arguments involving religion, Weber presents his claims through the lens of

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‘ideal types’ which are not definite and not in fine-tune of experiential fields of religion

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Weber’s arguments which take form in ‘ideal types’ present fundamentally indefinite and irresolute ideas about

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the ‘causal effects’ of religion – specifically Calvinism. Thus his ‘religiously unmusical’ typology becomes very important for his scientific and objective methodical approach which uses religious ‘ideal types’ that are deliberately unconclusive, whilst still logical and individualised.

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This concerns Weber’s scholarship as a whole as he promotes the independence of the social scientist which allows him to surpass the limits of a single

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‘main’ discipline of his contemporaries

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ANTI VALUE J

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whenever a man of science brings in his own value judgement, a full understanding of the facts ceases’
unspecialised ‘ideal types’ involving religion, crucially remaining indifferent to the religious axioms he uses within his arguments

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Weber’s ‘religiously unmusical’ notion conversely lacks substance in its

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contradictory nature

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The Calvinist ideas of ‘hard work’ and belief of ‘the fulfilment of one’s worldly duties’ that form his argument as factors facilitating the ‘capitalist spirit’ could just as likely be

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adaptations to economic life as factors influencing it

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He insists on the ’outstanding part played by Calvinism’ based on values that can be identified in other Protestantism sects such

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as Pietism, Methodism and Baptist movements, as well as in Jewish communities which he fails to appreciate

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Weber’s argument places its emphasis on the late 19th century German Protestant contribution at the end of the

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Reich, and perhaps The Protestant centrality to German identity and modernity at the time of his writing charges The Protestant ethic with a ‘religiously musical’ nature

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The ‘religiously unmusical’ notion of the Protestant Ethic is thus undermined as it becomes largely a cultural rather than predominantly

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predominantly historical analysis of the genesis of modern capitalism, influenced by Weber’s personal experiences of Protestantism in his own day

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The way Weber described the difference between Calvinism and Lutheranism ‘was strongly marked by his critique of (ROTH)

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the political indecisiveness of the German bourgeoisie’ and by his despair over the authoritarian political culture of the Wilhelmine Empire.

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his subconscious religious leanings underline his arguments of religion, specifically of

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Lutheranism, in The Protestant Ethic.

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The Protestant Ethic was not entirely free from his own value judgements; in fact, Weber’s concept of Protestantism is fuelled largely by his own value concepts. Graf goes as far to argue that Weber adopted Schneckenburger‘s

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‘reductive mechanism’ in his selection of historical material
Schneckenburger’s dogmatic history was the most important theological source for The Protestant Ethic, this could serve to undermine the ‘religiously unmusical’ nature of Weber’s work

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Weber’s ‘ideal types’ alone are selective and not entirely reflective of other factors contributing to the rise of capitalism, for example

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for example the non-religious wave of German nationalism at the time.

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The Protestant Ethic was not entirely ‘religiously unmusical’ as his personal religious experiences at times power his individualised argument, and the influences of ‘religiously musical’ contemporaries are present even

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even if occasional. ‘religiously unmusical’ nature cannot be justly discerned

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Weber does not consistently exclude his own religious leanings in his argument of The Protestant Ethic, yet his scientific approach based on

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‘ideal types’ involving religion which are deliberately indefinite serves to strengthen the objectivity of his argument

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Weber is sensitive to the behaviours and dogmas of each Protestant sects and examines each to strengthen his argument for the Calvinist contribution to the rise of capitalism – although this is not received

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entirely successfully

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Weber primarily consulted dogmatic-historical literature in which Protestant theology and religion were structured according to certain ideal types, thus

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‘religiously unmusical’

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Weber is emphatic that the religious concepts which supply the necessary framework for his account of the past, could not be derived from the historical agents themselves, ‘but only from the present-day analyst’ . GHOSH LECTURE

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which complicates his ’religious unmusical’ notion as his view of Protestantism was largely shaped by the modern German educational institutions and his own value judgements which detract from his interdisciplinary empiricism