Comments on: Another defense of capitalism http://reasontostand.org/archives/2010/07/19/another-defense-of-capitalism Faith strengthened through evidence. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:39:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Robertsonhttp://reasontostand.org/archives/2010/07/19/another-defense-of-capitalism/comment-page-1#comment-735 Ben Robertson Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:39:39 +0000 http://reasontostand.org/?p=1449#comment-735 I think there might be a difference between how each of you are thinking about capitalism--you thinking about it as strictly an economic system and your friend thinking of it as more of a worldview or complete social system. A good book on this topic is Amintore Fanfani's Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism, in which he argues that capitalism is a way of life that requires a certain spiritual orientation rather than just a system for organizing labor. As such, he sees the Catholic and capitalistic conceptions of life irreconcilable, and the Reformation as the watershed that allowed the capitalistic worldview to become dominant. I think there might be a difference between how each of you are thinking about capitalism–you thinking about it as strictly an economic system and your friend thinking of it as more of a worldview or complete social system.

A good book on this topic is Amintore Fanfani's Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism, in which he argues that capitalism is a way of life that requires a certain spiritual orientation rather than just a system for organizing labor. As such, he sees the Catholic and capitalistic conceptions of life irreconcilable, and the Reformation as the watershed that allowed the capitalistic worldview to become dominant.

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