新教伦理背后的深层动因——一个前韦伯的命题

Deep Motivation behind Protestant Ethics——A Proposition Preceding Weber's Theory

马克斯.韦伯论证了新教伦理对近代资本主义发展的巨大意义,但是在韦伯那里新教伦理是一个现成的概念,他没有对它的产生原因作出历史分析,只是作为问题提了出来。这一分析缺位使韦伯远离了唯物史观。中世纪晚期,随着欧洲资本主义萌芽的发展,资产阶级力量不断壮大,他们在现实的经济和科技方面的发展需要是促生新教伦理的深层动因。

Max Weber demonstrated the great significance of protestant ethics to the development of modern capitalism in Europe. But in Weber＇ s theory, protestant ethics was an existent idea, and the historical reasons of its occurrence hadn＇ t been given. This absence on analysis caused Weber＇ s theory to get away from the historical materialism. In the late medievaltime, with the development of capitalism, the strength of bourgeois graduall strong. The development＇ s demand of real economy and science was the deep reason of protestant ethics＇ s occurrence.