Word: ethicality
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...forbade them to purchase. Storekeepers in Hartford had a field day (sales up 34%), while their Massachusetts counterparts sulked at home and watched the parade which (for the nonce) replaced the extravaganza of Filene's Bargain Basement. Presumably these scenes were repeated last Saturday, when once again the Puritan ethic got the better of the spirit of capitalism in Massachusetts...
German Economist Max Weber broached the theory in 1905 with The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Calvinism and the Protestant sects, he maintained, lacking the absolution of sins provided by the Roman Catholic Church, depend upon outward and visible signs of salvation: diligence, sobriety and God's reward-success. Thrift, he argued, was also a peculiarly Protestant virtue, and the combination of these qualities naturally produced capital. Weber quoted Methodism's founder, John Wesley: "Religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches.'' British Economist Richard H. Tawney further...
...told a group of officials and reserve policemen in the town of Beaumont that as many as 150,000 refugees from Los Angeles might stream into Beaumont if there were an enemy attack, and that all survival kits should include a pistol. "There's nothing in the Christian ethic," said Dwyer, "which denies one's right to protect oneself and one's family...
...Ethics of It All. What do the guardians of the Christian ethic have to say about the pros and cons of gunning one's neighbor as well as loving him? As more and more families made preparations last week to go underground-with or without submachine guns-various clergymen had various recommendations...
...random question-and-answer session, Goodman had good words for: work-study programs, such as those engineered at such schools as Bennington and Antioch; progressive education ("We were sunk in the '20's. Everybody got chicken."); the Protestant Ethic ("but with a greater respect for the health of the body"): greater sexual freedom; the Middle Ages ("Why, you know, they had 162 holidays a year then. They know how to live. We don't know anything about the Middle Ages. Those serfs never worked."); freedom of teachers to establish their own curriculum free of administration supervision; moving classrooms into...