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Similarities Between Weber And Foucault

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This study will discuss the rationalization of the body as it was depicted in the works of Max Weber and Michel Foucault. Both of them have widely discussed the issue from different perspectives. This paper will attempt to bring out the points on which the two thinkers would agree or disagree in their opinions regarding the rationalization of the body. In this paper I will argue that both Weber and Foucault had some common ideas as they tried to deal with rationalization of the body and the individuation of the body, even though both appear to be in quite different points. This study will make a short sketch about how these two thinkers grasp the individuation and rationalization of the body in their works, giving an analysis about where …show more content…

For Turner rationalization has its roots in the irrational Protestant quest for salvation. Moreover, the rationalization process faces problems when substantive question of values are subordinated to formal questions of logic. With the paradox becoming more apparent with the outcome of the rationalization, a meaningless world which lacks in moral directions and which is dominated by the bureaucratic structure seem to emerge. This disenchantment of the world and the iron cage of modernity bring forth a social evolution that leads Weber to the argument that no one know who will live in this cage in the future. It is not known whether at the end of this development new prophets will arise. Or maybe there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or would it lead to specialists without spirit and sensualists without …show more content…

Weber describes how the Calvinist quest for salvation brought up culture of reason, stability, coherence and discipline, and world mastery. For him man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money, but rather wants to live as hi is accustomed to live and earn as much as is necessary for the purpose. And in the places where modern capitalism has begun to increase the productivity of human labor by increasing its intensity, it has encounters the stubborn resistance of this leading trait of pre-capitalistic labor. This process cuts the cord linking the individual to the religious institutions and contributes to the development of a new kind a possessive individualism, emphasizing a new culture dedicated to the transformation of human environment and the legitimation of money. Management now requires that men and women organize themselves in a strict fashion. Waste of time becomes the deadliest of sins. The human life is short and precious. Losing time through idle talk, sociability, luxury or more sleep that is necessary is worthy of absolute moral condemnation. Time is infinitely valuable when every hour lost to labor is lost for the glory of God. According to Turner reformation becomes a landmark event that acts as the catalyst that transformed the urban Western culture. And a new

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William T Cavanaugh (2008), wrote Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire which is a philosophical book, which focus on four (4) economic life matters that addresses the consumer culture within society. These four economic life matters are free market, consumerism, globalization and economic scarcity. In order for this topic to be discussed on a theological point of view, the author draws the reader’s attention to human life, the ends of life in God. The key question in every process is whether or not the transaction contributes to the flourishing of each person involved. In order to address these questions the author points to concrete examples of alternative economic practices in which Christians participate-: business, co-operatives, credit union, practices of consumption which marks the vision for Christian economic life.

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Insisting that religion plays a key role in the moral and educational development of the mind, he argues that “Without religion, there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all

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During the seventeenth century many ideas emerged that changed the way people saw the world. The Enlightenment is consider one of the breaking points in human history, the knowledge from that time influenced directly in how the events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and consequent centuries develop till today, important ideologies like Republic emerged during this time. The introduction of the “reason” was one of the most important concepts of this movement. The “reason” proposed the arriving of a judgment through the analysis of evidence that is why the first ideas of the enlightenment were scientific ones, like Sir Isaac Newton. But this changed by the eighteenth were the philosophical ideas focused more to the human existence.

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He criticized the liberal theology and propagated the implications that the social context of Christian life and series of actions and events have. He was of the opinion that the teachings provided by Jesus and those contained in the other Christian scriptures, do not contain sufficient guidance for the people to lead their normal day-to-day social lives. In one of his important works titled “An Interpretation of Christian Ethics” he has written that in order to bring any kind of changes in the society, power is needed. On the other hand, people who possess power generally tend to act solely for their own interests. Therefore, all the appeals made by the poor and socially weak people will not be heeded until the victims acquire power of some

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When Spain conquered the native populations in America, it brought with it the Roman Catholic religion, hoping to spread it through the new colonies. In northern America, Calvinism (A.K.A. Puritanism) was established along with other, less strict forms of Protestantism. As the protestant religion spread, so did the so-called “protestant work ethic”. This idea that one must work hard to establish personal success and to live a Godly life helped to encourage the development of capitalism as an economic structure. Meanwhile, in the Middle East and India, religious conflict was everywhere.

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The shift that the Awakening achieved had reflected the contributions of Enlightenment philosophy. The results that the Enlightenment received was not surprising at all. In America, the Calvinist doctrine of “inability” was said to be unrelated with a culture that is sunken in the ideology of the beliefs of universal equality, as well as political and economic mobility. This notion was an easy agreement to become, and Americans’ had felt that way too. The Americans believed that if the individual soul could be redeemed through free will, then national redemption would be able to follow from common efforts leading to social

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Many people think that many writers of a same topic tend to show the same ideas but in their own ways, this essay will show that there are a lot of differences between writers, like for example, The Venerable Bede and Margery Kempe. Their common ground is religion, and each one has a different encounter with it. The most obvious different is their lifetime, Bede was born in the year 672 and died in 735, while in the other hand, Kempe was born in the year 1373 and died in 1440. They never had contact with each other and still they wrote about the same topic as a whole, but with different experiences. Margery Kempe was known for her autobiography, in which she wrote about her experiences with the catholic religion.

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Power is an invisible form and has the capacity to control or influence the behaviour of a person. The claim given states that ‘employees are not the bearers of power but they suffer the effects of power’ draws attention to the key aspect of power in the organisations. For this reason, this essay will points toward the Weber’s theory for bureaucracy and how Foucault use the Panopticon as a metaphor to define the concept of power. Despite bearing some complementary perspectives, the differences between Weber and Foucault approaches to concepts of power and domination are pronounced. Weber (1968) defined power as the ability of an individual or group to achieve goals even against the resistance of others (Lukes, 1986).

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