nkcwong
09-12-2006, 03:55 PM
我不知道是否適合把這條thread貼在這裏。如果張兄認為不適合，可以移到別處。
我恐怕現代人對工作的態度及所附上的犧牲，已經到了一種宗教的狂熱程度。越來越競爭劇烈的社會，令人逼不得以要這樣做。韋伯在《新教倫理與資本主義精神》就有先知般的觀察﹕
"The Puritans wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which today determines the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force...
Since asceticism undertook to remodel the world and to work out its ideals in the world, materials goods have gained an increasing and finally an inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history. Today the spirit of religious ascenticism...has escaped from the [iron] cage. But victorious capitalism, since it rests on mechanical foundations, needs its support no longer......" (pp. 181-2).
工作的時間越來越長，就算不上班，也要常常想著保持競爭力。到底這種環境，賦予職場的信仰意義或relevance，是否只是一種亞Q精神？職場不可能不考慮效率及工具理性，一個沒有效率的員工就是會很容易被炒的。但是從信仰角度，沒有效率的人不一定不屬靈的。這種硬要信仰relevance是否根本就是不切實際的要求？
我恐怕現代人對工作的態度及所附上的犧牲，已經到了一種宗教的狂熱程度。越來越競爭劇烈的社會，令人逼不得以要這樣做。韋伯在《新教倫理與資本主義精神》就有先知般的觀察﹕
"The Puritans wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which today determines the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force...
Since asceticism undertook to remodel the world and to work out its ideals in the world, materials goods have gained an increasing and finally an inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history. Today the spirit of religious ascenticism...has escaped from the [iron] cage. But victorious capitalism, since it rests on mechanical foundations, needs its support no longer......" (pp. 181-2).
工作的時間越來越長，就算不上班，也要常常想著保持競爭力。到底這種環境，賦予職場的信仰意義或relevance，是否只是一種亞Q精神？職場不可能不考慮效率及工具理性，一個沒有效率的員工就是會很容易被炒的。但是從信仰角度，沒有效率的人不一定不屬靈的。這種硬要信仰relevance是否根本就是不切實際的要求？