Protestant Ethics and the Breakdown of Capitalism

The European culture crisis at the turn of the 20th century, rooted by but not limited to the bourgeois society development, proved to be a significant intermediate outcome of the Protestantism ethics impact on the capitalist relations formation. Crisis-rooted events appeared as an extremely contradictory, but rather obvious symptom of one of the critical stages at the end of the modern period, followed by the two unprecedentedly tragic world wars and the record economic growth of the West after them. Thorough examination of the socio-philosophical reflection of the historical circumstances indicates a new round of crisis manifesting the moral collapse of the Anglo-Saxon capitalist model.