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Durkheim's suicide argument, as Jiang presents it, is that Protestant individual struggle produces energy but also abandonment, hopelessness, and higher suicide than Catholic communal ritual.
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Durkheim's suicide argument, as Jiang presents it, is that Protestant individual struggle produces energy but also abandonment, hopelessness, and higher suicide than Catholic communal ritual.
Durkheim's account says Protestant anxiety transfers into wealth accumulation, but overexcited ambition has no natural stopping point and therefore cannot satisfy.
Jiang says Weber and Durkheim are prophets because they see a wealthy, connected civilization moving toward depression, anxiety, suicide, and self-destruction.
In response to a student prompt, Jiang says Protestant logic can treat suicide less as sin than as weakness or evidence of insufficient faith, while Durkheim treats suicide as disconnection from community.
Durkheim's chain, as Jiang states it, is disconnection leads to suicide, anxiety creates disconnection, anxiety feeds capitalism, and capitalism therefore creates suicide.
Durkheim is used to define religion as the collective system of ideas through which people imagine society and construct a first representation of relations between things.
"...okay? The last person I want to talk about is Emil Durkheim, and he's a French sociologist, and his most famous book is called..."
"So, let's not read this, but that's what he's saying, okay? Okay, but I want to read this. This is really important. He's talking..."
"You try to get more and more money to prove your worth to God, but you can't stop. You don't know when to stop,..."
"...in a zombie civilization, okay? That's what he's saying. What Emil Durkheim is saying is that this civilization is an abomination. It's on a..."
"You can go to the United States and study and then come back and work, okay? You have more opportunities than ever before. But..."
"And again, this idea that we learned previously, we're combining it, and we are going to use these ideas to understand the future development,..."
"...die, you're not actually impacting the community, okay? And that's Emile Durkheim's argument. You're always gonna have people kill themselves in all religions. You..."
"...future, all right? Now, okay, having said that, let's look at Durkheim, okay? Durkheim. What's he saying? He's saying this, okay? And this is..."
"Why is anxiety important? Because it leads to capitalism. So in other words, these four concepts are interconnected, all right? Disconnection leads to suicide...."
"...So it's a terrible world that we're going to, but what Durkheim is saying is if we continue on the path of capitalism, people..."
"...quote. Okay? What is religion? Okay? And this is from Imel Durkheim. Okay? And I want you to remember the name Imel Durkheim. Okay?..."
"So the great service that religions have rendered to thought is to have constructed a first representation of the relations of kinship between things..."
The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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