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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... moral demands on us of which Tawney was so aware , that set him apart from contemporary students of the " science " of society . “ One's like a merry , mis- chievous ape , tearing up the image of God , " Tawney described himself and his ...
... moral demands on us of which Tawney was so aware , that set him apart from contemporary students of the " science " of society . “ One's like a merry , mis- chievous ape , tearing up the image of God , " Tawney described himself and his ...
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... moral vigor in the fulfillment of one's social obligations was to be found in his own religious orientations as his belief that What is wrong with the modern world is that having ceased to believe in the greatness of God , and therefore ...
... moral vigor in the fulfillment of one's social obligations was to be found in his own religious orientations as his belief that What is wrong with the modern world is that having ceased to believe in the greatness of God , and therefore ...
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... moral sources which made his life and work an example and influence on so many over the course of this century . The preface to The Agrar- ian Problem in the Sixteenth Century acknowledges Tawney's debt to the " friendly smiting of ...
... moral sources which made his life and work an example and influence on so many over the course of this century . The preface to The Agrar- ian Problem in the Sixteenth Century acknowledges Tawney's debt to the " friendly smiting of ...
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... moral weight in both the Church of England and the Labour Party , R. H. Tawney's eth- ics were rooted in an enviable ... Morality , the belief that “ ev- ery human being is of infinite importance , and therefore that no consideration of ...
... moral weight in both the Church of England and the Labour Party , R. H. Tawney's eth- ics were rooted in an enviable ... Morality , the belief that “ ev- ery human being is of infinite importance , and therefore that no consideration of ...
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... moral approval or satisfaction . " 15 From this follows the very important corollary that " what one may call a ' satisfying social system ' is very largely independent of the material environment . The latter will not by itself bring ...
... moral approval or satisfaction . " 15 From this follows the very important corollary that " what one may call a ' satisfying social system ' is very largely independent of the material environment . The latter will not by itself bring ...
Spis treści
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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