The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism [[electronic resource] /] / Max Weber ; translated by Talcott Parsons ; with an introduction by Anthony Giddens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783154203321
• Autore: Weber Max <1864-1920.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Routledge, 2001, c1930
• ISBN: 1-134-52188-X; 1-134-52189-8; 1-280-17314-9; 0-203-99580-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Collana: Routledge classics
• Altri autori (Persone): ParsonsTalcott <1902-1979.>; GiddensAnthony
• Disciplina: 306.6
• Soggetti: Christian ethics; Capitalism - Religious aspects - Christianity; Christian sociology; Protestant work ethic
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: Great Britain : Allen and Unwin, 1930.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE; AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION; PART I The Problem; 1 Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification; 2 The Spirit of Capitalism; 3 Luther's Conception of the Calling: Task of the Investigation; PART II The Practical Ethics of the Ascetic Branches of Protestantism; 4 The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism; A. Calvinism; B. Pietism; C. Methodism; D. The Baptist Sects; 5 Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism; NOTES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Protestant ethic made possible and encouraged the development of capitalism in the West. Widely considered as the most ; informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism holds its own as one of the most signific

Mongorukoku ni okeru 20 seiki (2) : Shakai shugi no tatakatta hitobito no shogen / Yuki Konagaya

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00305159
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: 366 p. ; 26 cm
• ISBN: 978-49-01-90650-0
• Edizione: [Osaka : Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan]
• Descrizione fisica: Altro front. : The twentieth century in Mongolia (2)
• Classificazione: MON V B
• Soggetti: MONGOLIA - POLITICA - PERIODO COMUNISTA; ETNOLOGIA - MUSEI
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Giapponese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The anatomy of neoplatonism / / A.C. Lloyd

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972646903321
• Autore: Lloyd A. C (Antony C.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 198 p
• Disciplina: 186/.4
• Soggetti: Neoplatonism; Philosophy, Ancient
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-189) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Attitudes To Logic -- Commentaries and scholia -- The Neoplatonic curriculum -- Conventional features of lectures -- The dialectic methods and the meaning of 'analysis' -- Proclus' comparison of Aristotelian and Parmenidean logic -- The Alexandrian conception of logic -- The criterion of validity -- Logical form -- How much did Neoplatonism influence the logical commentaries? -- A comment on consistency and originality -- 2. Porphyrian Semantics -- Imposition of names -- 'Genus' and 'species' -- Use and mention? -- Singular terms, individuals, and bundles of properties -- Predication -- Predicates as concepts -- Porphyry's two programmes -- When is a proposition one proposition? -- How can a proper name be ambiguous? -- Which animal is predicated? -- The 'unallocated': Transcendent genus or concept? Multiplication of the universal -- The myth of a Neoplatonic nominalism -- The Aristotelianism of Byzantine Neoplatonists -- 3. Quasi-Genera and the Collapse Of Substance and Attribute -- P-series as quasi-genera -- How can they have a deductive logic? First thesis -- Second thesis -- Third thesis: Plotinian and Proclan versions -- Plotinus' radical criticism of substance and attribute -- Two structures, two levels of thought? -- 4. Procession and Decline -- Emanation as external activity: The model in Aristotle's physics -- The Proclan rule -- Defective reception as weakness of the form. Proclus' aversion from dualism -- How monads ; descend. How transcendental triads function -- Matter replaced by composition of causes? -- Decline of monad as distance from the One. Fundamental equations of force, value, and unity -- 5. The Spiritual Circuit -- Only a particular soul can ascend -- Personal experience integral to Neoplatonism -- Ambiguities of 'reversion' -- Philosophical interpretations of the spiritual circuit.; Appearance and reality -- 6. The Limits Of Knowledge -- Knowledge as a P-series -- The process of perception -- Natural science. Canons -- Sensation as obscure thinking -- Iamblichus' principle of knowing. Future contingents -- How henads, not intellects, know particulars. The accidental -- 7. Mysticism and Metaphysics -- Pure Intellect in Plotinus -- Pure Intellect and Henads in Proclus -- The loving intellect = pre-intellect -- A constructive interpretation of the motionless movement -- What is presupposed by thought and existence -- What is so valuable about knowledge? -- How consciousness creates -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- A -- B -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- General Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Anatomy of Neoplatonism was the crowning achievement of A. C. Lloyd, the distinguished scholar of late ancient philosophy. He offers a rich and authoritative study of this school of thought, which was highly influential not only on subsequent philosophy but also on Christian theology. His discussion ranges over metaphysics, epistemology, lo.