Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical StudyNew American Library, 1926 - 280 páginas |
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study Richard Henry Tawney Vista de fragmentos - 1952 |
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study Richard Henry Tawney Vista de fragmentos - 1937 |
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study ... Richard Henry Tawney Vista de fragmentos - 1926 |
Términos y frases comunes
Antwerp appears appetites attitude authorities avarice bishop Calvin Calvinist canon law capital capitalist casuistry chap charity Christ Christian Church cial City civilization classes commercial common conception conscience Council covetousness discipline divine doctrine duty ecclesiastical courts economic ethics economic interests Edna Ferber England English enterprise expediency extortion Fuggers G. G. Coulton Geneva gilds Government human Ibid ideal individual industry insistence labor land landlord later less loans London Lord Luther matter medieval ment merchant merely Middle Ages modern money-lender Monts de Piété moral movement natural Nicholas Barbon nomic organization peasants political poor practical profits Protestant Puritan question R. H. TAWNEY Reformation religion revolution rich rise rule secular sermon seventeenth century sixteenth century social ethics social theory society soul spirit Summa teaching teenth century things tion trade traditional transactions Tudor tury usurer usury virtues wealth Weber wrote
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Página 165 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Página 214 - Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent. For the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires that the people should have property, without which they must...
Página 208 - I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure ; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature...
Página 88 - We believe that the highest morality is contained in the Golden Rule: "Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them.
Página 223 - The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors...
Página 128 - We heartily pray thee, to send thy holy Spirit into the hearts of them that possess the grounds, pastures, and dwelling places of the earth, that they remembering themselves to be thy tenants, may not rack and stretch out the rents of their houses and lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines and incomes after the manner of covetous worldlings...
Página 169 - ... and also most of the poorest of the people, whom the other called the rabble, did follow the gentry and were for the King. On the Parliament's side were . . . the smaller part (as some thought) of the gentry in most of the counties, and the greatest part of the tradesmen and freeholders and the middle sort of men, especially in those corporations and counties which depend on clothing and such manufactures.
Página 113 - That a man might sell as dear as he can, and buy as cheap -q| he can. 2. If a man lose by casualty of sea, etc., in some of his commodities, he may raise the price of the rest. 3. That he may sell as he bought, though he paid too dear, etc., and though the commodity be fallen, etc.
Página 221 - Few tricks of the unsophisticated intellect are more curious than the naive psychology of the business man, who ascribes his achievements to his own unaided efforts, in bland unconsciousness of a social order without whose continuous support and vigilant protection he would be as a lamb bleating in the desert. That individualist complex owes part of its self-assurance to the suggestion of Puritan moralists, that practical success is at once the sign and the reward of ethical superiority. 'No question...