Following Marx's lead, he named this force "capitalism" and elucidated its essence from a completely new perspective in his "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904-05). In this monumental essay, he traces the ethos of capitalism to the ethics of the "professionals (Berufsmensch)" and discovers that it originates from the "innerweltliche Askese" of Protestantism. This view that religion established capitalism was a nail in the coffin for 19th century rationalism, which equated religion with superstition and magic. *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "innerweltliche Askese" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…この力をマルクスにならい〈資本主義〉と名づけ,まったく新しい視角からその本質を解明したのが《プロテスタンティズムの倫理と資本主義の精神》(1904‐05)である。この記念碑的論文で彼は,資本主義のエートスを〈職業人Berufsmensch〉の倫理に求め,それがプロテスタンティズムの〈世俗内禁欲innerweltliche Askese〉に由来することをつきとめる。宗教が資本主義を成立させたというこの見解は,宗教を迷信や呪術と同一視する19世紀的合理主義にとって頂門の一針であった。… ※「innerweltliche Askese」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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