Religion and the Rise of CapitalismR.H. Tawney Routledge, 29 wrz 2017 - 337 In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages. In so doing he sheds light on why Christianity continues to exert a unique role in the marketplace. In so doing, the book offers an incisive analysis of the historical background of present morals and mores in Western culture.Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is even more pertinent now than when it first was published; for today it is clearer that the dividing line between spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, that economic interests and ethical considerations are no longer safely locked in separate compartments. By examining that period which saw the transition from medieval to modern theories of social organization, Tawney clarifies the most pressing problems of the end of the century. In tough, muscular, richly varied prose, he tells an absorbing and meaningful story. And in his new introduction, which may well be a classic in its own right, Adam Seligman details Tawney's entire background, the current status of social science thought on these large issues, and a comparative analysis of Tawney with Max Weber that will at once delight and inform readers of all kinds. |
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... idea of social prob- lems as problems of proportions : the reigning terms of legiti- mation , of the provision of Public Goods , and the rules of distributive justice , current struggles over entitlements , wel- fare , and the quality ...
... idea of social prob- lems as problems of proportions : the reigning terms of legiti- mation , of the provision of Public Goods , and the rules of distributive justice , current struggles over entitlements , wel- fare , and the quality ...
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... ideas of right and wrong that exist beyond and anterior to the market , what Emile Durkheim termed so long ago the " pre- contractual " elements of social life , that is , those laws and regulations that themselves structure and define ...
... ideas of right and wrong that exist beyond and anterior to the market , what Emile Durkheim termed so long ago the " pre- contractual " elements of social life , that is , those laws and regulations that themselves structure and define ...
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... idea of the in- dividual as what may be termed unconditional locus of exchange , which progressed gradually from the 1600s to the 1800s , ended with the nineteenth - century , classical liberal , laissez - faire doctrine that saw that ...
... idea of the in- dividual as what may be termed unconditional locus of exchange , which progressed gradually from the 1600s to the 1800s , ended with the nineteenth - century , classical liberal , laissez - faire doctrine that saw that ...
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... ideas of self and society , transformations that , whatever current theories of modernity or post - modernity proclaim , remain the defining elements of modernity as a dis- tinct form of human civilizational enterprise . With a slightly ...
... ideas of self and society , transformations that , whatever current theories of modernity or post - modernity proclaim , remain the defining elements of modernity as a dis- tinct form of human civilizational enterprise . With a slightly ...
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... ideas of reason and neo - Platonic mysticism.32 On the one hand , the integrated ethic of the Thomistic system posited reason and natural law as essential steps towards the realization of the Christian moral vision . On the other , it ...
... ideas of reason and neo - Platonic mysticism.32 On the one hand , the integrated ethic of the Thomistic system posited reason and natural law as essential steps towards the realization of the Christian moral vision . On the other , it ...
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II The Continental Reformers | 63 |
III The Church of England | 133 |
IV The Puritan Movement | 195 |
V Conclusion | 275 |
Notes | 289 |
Index | 327 |
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