[hist] - Weber

cultural consideration on origins of capitalism

'the influence of certain religious ideas on the development of an economic spirit'

'have taken part in the qualitative formation and the quantitative expansion of [capitalism]'

'clarify the part which religious forces have played'

W anti-monocausalism

'foolish and doctrinaire thesis [that] capitalism as an economic system is a creation of the Reformation'

did not want to 'substitute for a one-sided materialistic an equally one-sided spiritualistic causal interpretation'

W on sombart

'untenable statement'

'[theological moralists] also seriously misinterpreted'

wtbs 'by no means neglected this ethical aspect of the capitalistic entrepreneur'

W on rachfahl

'ventured into a field which he has not thoroughly mastered'

wtbs 'the most comprehensive criticisms'

wertfreiheit

'whoever wants a sermon should go to a conventicle'

'keep his small personal commentaries to himself'

'party politics also does not belong in the lecture-room'

'religiously unmusical' in a 'godless and prophetless world'

value plurality

'duty to teach his students to acknowledge 'inconvenient facts''

W on marxist historical materialism

'the origin and history [of capitalism] is much more complex than the theorists of the superstructure propose'

'unilateral line of relationship between 'material' and 'ideal' factors [is] patent nonsense'

history as contextualisation

'reality of the life [...] [and] the reasons why the[se elements] historically developed'

'the analysis and historical explanation' in the 'purely historical discussion' of PESC

PE LOA - ascetic protestantism and capitalism

'"labour" that was the most "outward expression of brotherly love"'

'performance of duty, [...] not only morally permissible, but actually enjoyed'

'attainment of [wealth] as a fruit of labour [as a] sign of God's blessing'

'most suitable means of counteracting feelings of religious anxiety'

PE LOA - development of rationalism

'the development of rationalism as a whole'

disparaged 'the most urgent task the destruction of spontaneous, impulsive enjoyment'

verstehen, difference between past and present

Sinnzusammenhang, subjective intentions

'the spirit of religious asceticism [...] has escaped from the cage'

'the pursuit of wealth [has been] stripped of its religious and ethical meaning'

'the Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so'

verstehen, different between concurrent faiths (calvinism, confucianism, buddhism)

calvinism - '"labour" that was the most "outward expression of brotherly love"'

confucianism - 'had no idea of salvation', preoccupation with 'economic, medical, priestly income' as 'little path'

buddhism - 'planless flight from the world'

W as historian

'historian in the broadest sense of the term'