A Study And Enlightenment Of Ethical Problems In The Origin Of Capitalism Of Max Weber

Max Weber (Max Weber,1864-1920) is a famous German sociologist, known as the“son of Western civilization”, also known as the “bourgeois Marx”. In the westernthought, he put forward the unique economic ethic thoughts, studying the economicethics behind the religious phenomenon, based on the relationship between protestantethic and capitalism spirit, demonstrates the cause of the modern capitalism originatedin Europe.Any ideological formation, has its era background and the theoretical background,of course, in addition to these social problems as well as the theoretical basis and sourceof Weber’s unique life experiences deeply affected the formation of economic ethics.Weber on the duty of the western religious sect and social stratum, found that protestantdenominations “predestination” gave birth to the concept of vocation and asceticism,whose teachings creed followers from birth to the accession to the WTO, in the study ofreligious denominations and social classes of the Western countries, the development ofthe capitalist accumulation of wealth. Therefore, in order to explain the relationshipbetween religion and capitalism, Weber introduced the concept of a “spirit ofcapitalism” ideal type. Weber’s rational spirit of capitalism is actually vocation notionas the core ethic of asceticism, rational spirit of capitalism mode of production combineto form the Western rational capitalist system. Simply speaking, Weber started from thepractice religious social class, analyze their lifestyle and their view of the world, and theanalysis of the actual impact of these sectors of the economy ethical life to sophisticatedreligion in the process of economic life in the Western capitalist formation and animportant role in the development process.The reason why Weber ideological enduring, unscathed lies the predictability andaccuracy of some of his research thesis has amazing. Despite the social and economic development for many reasons, but Weber found a new path, from the ethical andeconomic relations to explore, especially the rational value behind the religious ethics,make people deeply recognize the important role of spiritual culture for socialdevelopment. Weber also did not forget the impact of the economic and political factors.In the process of capitalist development, the formation oof such a comprehensivetheoretical perspective beyond the dichotomy of idealism and materialism. Weberdiscusses the development of capitalism, also saw the future challenges of thecapitalism. Weber followed the principle of “value-neutral” is more important for us toobserve things, unique methodology perspective to think. Marxism as a theoretical basisof the Weber thought, we also need analysis and evaluation of Weber point of view froma Marxist perspective. Different from Marxist historical materialism, Weber too muchemphasis on the role of religious ethics, and preached to limit consumption andexploitation of rationalization, this are all deficiencies and limitations of Weber thought.World today suffered the significance of the loss and the instrumental negativedevelopment of interpersonal relationship, the development of the socialist marketeconomy, there have been many demoralization phenomenon, Weber thought let usemphasis on the role of individual social spiritual and cultural formation temperamentof economic development, and revelation us to build a socialist market economy musthave the corresponding ethical value system, it also has certain reference significance tothe construction of our socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics.