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The Protestant work ethic, [1] also known as the Calvinist work ethic [2] or the Puritan work ethic, [3] is a work ethic concept in sociology, economics, and history.It emphasizes that a person's subscription to the values espoused by the Protestant faith, particularly Calvinism, result in diligence, discipline, and frugality.
Current literature on Puritanism supports two general points: Puritans were identifiable in terms of their general culture, by contemporaries, which changed over time; and they were not identified by theological views alone.
According to historian István P. Bejczy, "the capital vices are more often contrasted with the remedial or contrary virtues in medieval moral literature than with the principal virtues, while the principal virtues are frequently accompanied by a set of mirroring vices rather than by the seven deadly sins".
McMahon focuses on the early opponents to the Enlightenment in France, unearthing a long-forgotten "Grub Street" literature in the late 18th and early 19th centuries aimed at the philosophes. He delves into the obscure world of the "low Counter-Enlightenment" that attacked the encyclopédistes and fought to prevent the dissemination of ...
Some scholars have addressed the potential existence of puritanical bias in the existing social psychology literature. [16] It is argued that by orienting paths of research around the assumption that self-control is always optimal, researchers imply that social issues such as obesity and under-saving for retirement are problems of individual-level low self-control, rather than contextual issues.
In such usage, hedonism and puritanism are antonyms. [13] William Shakespeare described the vain, pompous killjoy Malvolio in Twelfth Night as "a kind of Puritan". [14] H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." [15] Puritans embraced sexuality but placed it in the context of marriage.
The Apollonian and the Dionysian are philosophical and literary concepts represented by a duality between the figures of Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.Its popularization is widely attributed to the work The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, though the terms had already been in use prior to this, [1] such as in the writings of poet Friedrich Hölderlin, historian Johann ...
Pages in category "Ethics literature" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Human rights ...