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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... modern world is that having ceased to believe in the greatness of God , and therefore the infinite smallness ( or greatness - the same thing ! ) of man , it had to invent or emphasize distinctions between men . It does not say " I have ...
... modern world is that having ceased to believe in the greatness of God , and therefore the infinite smallness ( or greatness - the same thing ! ) of man , it had to invent or emphasize distinctions between men . It does not say " I have ...
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... Modern politics are con- cerned with the manipulation of forces and interest . Modern society is sick through the absence of a moral ideal . To try to cure this by politics is like make [ sic ] surgical experiment on a man who is dying ...
... Modern politics are con- cerned with the manipulation of forces and interest . Modern society is sick through the absence of a moral ideal . To try to cure this by politics is like make [ sic ] surgical experiment on a man who is dying ...
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... modern natural law doctrine as seen in the writings of Grotius ( De jure Belli ac pacis , 1625 ) , Puffendorf ( De jure Naturae et Gentium , 1672 ) , Burlamaqui ( Principles due Droit Naturel , 1747 ) , Vattel ( Droit de Gens ou ...
... modern natural law doctrine as seen in the writings of Grotius ( De jure Belli ac pacis , 1625 ) , Puffendorf ( De jure Naturae et Gentium , 1672 ) , Burlamaqui ( Principles due Droit Naturel , 1747 ) , Vattel ( Droit de Gens ou ...
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R.H. Tawney. natural law doctrines and the modern political principles of natu- ral rights . The very appeal of a rationalized theology in the eighteenth century was one from which the transcendent di- mension had not totally been ...
R.H. Tawney. natural law doctrines and the modern political principles of natu- ral rights . The very appeal of a rationalized theology in the eighteenth century was one from which the transcendent di- mension had not totally been ...
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... modern capitalism , its specific ethos : the ethos of the modern bourgeois middle classes.61 What Weber thus stressed was the development of certain character traits , of what we have come to characterize as bour- geois character traits ...
... modern capitalism , its specific ethos : the ethos of the modern bourgeois middle classes.61 What Weber thus stressed was the development of certain character traits , of what we have come to characterize as bour- geois character traits ...
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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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