新教伦理与资本主义精神

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新教伦理与资本主义精神

1905 · 作者：马克斯·韦伯

宗教禁欲主义如何促成了现代资本主义。

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简介

Weber published the study in two parts in 1904 and 1905 in the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, which he co-edited, and revised it in 1920 with long notes answering his critics. He starts from statistics suggesting that Protestants in Germany were more prominent in business and technical education, and from Benjamin Franklin’s maxims, such as “time is money”, as an example of a capitalist ethos. His explanation lies in the Calvinist doctrine of predestination: believers who could not know whether they were saved looked for signs of grace in methodical work in a “calling”, and saved instead of spending. Historians and sociologists have disputed the thesis ever since.