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oapen-20.500.12657-461432023-02-01T09:33:22Z The Economic Ethics of World Religions and their Laws Buss, Andreas Social Science Sociology Technology & Engineering Agriculture bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TV Agriculture & farming Based on analyses of the essays written by Max Weber on China, India, ancient Judaism and also on the dispersed material about Islam, Eastern Christianity and Occidental Christianity, this book examines the economic ethics of Asian and Christian traditions and their corresponding legal systems. Drawing also on Weber's methodology (particularly the concept of adequate causation), the author reveals that the nature of Asian religions as well as the nature of customary and other not formally rational laws in Asian cultures could not lead to modern capitalism out of their own sources, although capitalism could be adopted from the outside. The culture of the Occident, upon which capitalism is based, is revealed to consist of a double rationalisation: the formal rationality of the exterior circumstances of life (administrative and legal) and the innerworldly practical rationality of the inner motivations of the Protestants, supported by a goal-oriented rational technology. 2021-01-14T04:32:34Z 2021-01-14T04:32:34Z 2015 book 9783845265834 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46143 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845265834 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845265834 a828cf6c-76dd-4fdb-b400-ec5fba9459b8 9783845265834 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG open access
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Based on analyses of the essays written by Max Weber on China, India, ancient Judaism and also on the dispersed material about Islam, Eastern Christianity and Occidental Christianity, this book examines the economic ethics of Asian and Christian traditions and their corresponding legal systems. Drawing also on Weber's methodology (particularly the concept of adequate causation), the author reveals that the nature of Asian religions as well as the nature of customary and other not formally rational laws in Asian cultures could not lead to modern capitalism out of their own sources, although capitalism could be adopted from the outside. The culture of the Occident, upon which capitalism is based, is revealed to consist of a double rationalisation: the formal rationality of the exterior circumstances of life (administrative and legal) and the innerworldly practical rationality of the inner motivations of the Protestants, supported by a goal-oriented rational technology.
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