Comparing The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism

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In the Author’s Introduction in Max Weber’s article The Protestant ethic and the Spirit of

Capitalism, Weber starts off his essay by asking: Why is Western civilization the only

civilization to have developed cultural phenomena that the whole world credits universal

value and significance to? This makes it clear that he’s going to be talking about this in

his essay and is going to be giving his opinions and thoughts on why Western

civilization is viewed as more significant than other civilizations around the world.

Only in the West does science exist in a place of development in which we consider

today as valid. Indian natural sciences are very well developed in observation, but they lack the

method of experiment, a biological …show more content…
For example the very well developed and advanced historical scholarship

of China did not have the method of Thucydides. Machiavelli had predecessors in India, but

Indian political thought was lacking in a systematic method comparable and similar to that of

Aristotle, and in the possession of rational concepts.

"Decimals, and algebra have been carried on in India, where the decimal system was invented,

yet it was only made use by developing capitalism in the West”(Weber, p.17). This

quote/statement could make people wonder why people in Western civilization and not in Indian civilization take complete and full advantage of the decimal system? The technical use of

scientific knowledge is important for the living conditions for mass amounts of people, was most

definitely encouraged by economic considerations, which were extremely favourable to it in the

countries of Western civilization.

Organization of political and social groups in feudal classes has been common. But

even the feudal state “rex et regnum” in the Western sense has only been known to our

culture, the Western
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