Karmic Adjustment & Weber

[Mark Kohut]

This is the plist....'Don't follow leaders; feed the parking meters"...


From: Jeff Sunbury <jsunbury at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: Karmic Adjustment & Weber



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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