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Excerpt code: qysa Title: Protestant Ethics and Capitalist Spirit
Author: [Germany] Max Weber
Translator: Le Kang
Douban score: 9.2
Publisher: Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore
Publication year: 20 19-4
Content introduction:
Was Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism written by Marx? One of Weber's masterpieces.
Why did capitalism, which dominated the world since modern times, emerge from western civilization alone? Weber pointed out that modern capitalism is characterized by rational continuous operation and organized labor from the perspective of cultural and religious constraints on social and economic development, and the core elements of capitalist spirit, namely "obligation" thought and work ethics dedicated to professional labor, have natural internal affinity with Protestant asceticism. Protestantism, especially Calvinism's outlook on life, which takes work as its bounden duty and systematically and rationally pursues legitimate income, is the spiritual motive force suitable for the development of capitalism. The Protestant outlook on life has promoted a rational life tendency based on professional ideas, which has now become a common way of life for modern citizens. Although asceticism contributed to the birth of modern economic order, after the establishment of the order that determines everything, capitalism laid a solid foundation in mechanical civilization, and Protestant asceticism in WTO disintegrated into pure utilitarianism. Capitalism, which has faded out of religious ethics, has finally become "an expert without soul and an unintentional hedonist. This empty man's conceit has reached a level that human beings have never reached."
About the author:
Max Weber (1864.4.21-1920.6.14) was born in Thuringia, Germany. From 65438 to 0882, he began to study law at the University of Heidelberg. Since 1892, he has taught in Berlin University, Freiburg University, Heidelberg University, Vienna University and Munich University. 1920 June 14, died of pneumonia.
Max Weber, Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim are the founders of modern sociology. Among the great thinkers who have a far-reaching influence on the modern world, Max Weber's position is still beyond doubt, and his ideological system has never been fundamentally challenged. He wrote many books in his life, among which "Academics and Politics" and "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism" are well known to readers in China.