Karmic Adjustment & Weber

[Jeff Sunbury]

Mark, the water's lukewarm but how deep do you want to go? I still have a
paperback copy of Protestant Ethics from college.


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  Parsons, long-winded, sez in writing of another of Weber's key concepts
> 'rationalization'
> "which is the master conception through which cultures define their
> religious situation"....................
> which is resolved, basically, in one of two ways....."in the two fully
> consistent philosophies of moral meaning,
> or theodicies, which have appeared in religous history."
> 1) One is the Calvinistic conception that resolution depends on the
> relationship between an absolute, all-powerful, unknowable, God
> upon which his Creation--all of us--is dependent on his Will and
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> 2) the doctrine of *karma, *which postulates a complete closure of the
> moral system over time spans altogether
> commensurable with the human life span, though not, strictly speaking,
> eternal.
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> Justifying God's ways to man involves accepting unproveable postulates, of
> course, but similar considerations apply
> in the case of *karma, *Parsons says of Weber's notion.
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> Kai, all, jump in, the water's lukewarm here.
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