Abstract

Weber in "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism", the link will be professional and vocation, and from this point of view that the Protestant ethic to promote the rise of the capitalist spirit. The paper believes that this direct contact is based on deism. Through the introduction of Kierkegaard's critique of Western metaphysics, reason, I will argue, on the one hand, derived from the deistic concept in the career of Christian Kierkegaard, under the vision is wrong, because the job is just a person living One accidental situation, so not God's "call." According to Kierkegaard's interpretation of Christianity, God is beyond the call of nature, which determines that it can not be directly understood by human reason, it is in a unique - I call it "negative" "indirect" - way to be understanding, calls beyond the professional, the former beyond human reason, which is the product of a rational division of labor; the other hand, the call of God has a relationship with the job. Situation is precisely the chance to call God and the people responded to the "occasion" , a Christian if you take a job, then he must be hard working, willing to "suffer" , Weber correctly Christians see the importance of professional, hard-working performance in their careers, but failed to properly explain why. In short, according to Kierkegaard's thought, there is a different from Weber's concept of the Christian profession, which will be the spirit of Christianity and capitalism, the link is questionable. In Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber related the worldly calling, that is, occupation, with the calling from God directly by regarding the achievement in the occupation as the glorification of God. This kind of interpretation is based on the natural theology, which is a kind of transformation of the modern western rationalist metaphysics. However, according to Kierkegaard, the calling from God is other than worldly occupation in that the former is transcendent while the later is within the system of labour division. For an individual gets the intimation of the Calling from God in a negative way. But there is a pattern of connection between the transcendent calling and the worldly occupation. That is, occupation is the occasion on which the calling of God is heard and responded to through suffering. That's why Christianity regards occupation as quite important, which Weber correctly described but wrongly explained