Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2015. № 2. Part 1. P. 13-15.
ROLE OF PROTESTANT ETHIC IN FORMATION OF SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM: INTERPRETATION OF M. WEBER
Alyamkin Sergei Nikolaevich
Mordovian Institute for the Humanities
Abstract. The article on the basis of the paper "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" by M. Weber analyzes relation between the basic religious ideas of ascetic Protestantism and the norms of economic behaviour, justifies the essential features of the economic human in Protestant ethic. The author analyzes approaches with critical attitude to M. Weber’s thesis about the crucial role of such Protestant values as diligence, honesty, economy in the formation of capitalism. The researcher emphasizes the heuristic importance of Weber’s theory in the aspect of the culturally typical specificity of the western human.
Key words and phrases: протестантизм, капитализм, аскетизм, профессиональное призвание, мирская аскеза, рационализм, избранность, Protestantism, capitalism, asceticism, professional mission, secular asceticism, rationalism, selectness
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