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    1) The document provides background context on Weber's book "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". It discusses the intellectual climate and circumstances in Germany in the late 19th century when Weber was writing. 2) In Germany at the time, utilitarianism and classical political economy were not as dominant as in Britain. German philosophy was more influenced by Idealism and Marxism. 3) Weber sought to examine economic life within the historical development of culture as a whole, as inspired by the historical school of economics in Germany.

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    1) The document provides background context on Weber's book "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". It discusses the intellectual climate and circumstances in Germany in the late 19th century when Weber was writing. 2) In Germany at the time, utilitarianism and classical political economy were not as dominant as in Britain. German philosophy was more influenced by Idealism and Marxism. 3) Weber sought to examine economic life within the historical development of culture as a whole, as inspired by the historical school of economics in Germany.

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    viii

    introduction

    history, economics and jurisprudence. They include studies of


    mediaeval trading law (his doctoral dissertation), the development of Roman land-tenure, and the contemporary socioeconomic conditions of rural workers in the eastern part of
    Germany. These writings took their inspiration in some substantial part from the so-called historical school of economics
    which, in conscious divergence from British political economy,
    stressed the need to examine economic life within the context of
    the historical development of culture as a whole. Weber always
    remained indebted to this standpoint. But the series of works he
    began on his return to health, and which preoccupied him for
    the remainder of his career, concern a range of problems much
    broader in compass than those covered in the earlier period. The
    Protestant Ethic was a rst fruit of these new endeavours.
    An appreciation of what Weber sought to achieve in the book
    demands at least an elementary grasp of two aspects of the circumstances in which it was produced: the intellectual climate
    within which he wrote, and the connections between the work
    itself and the massive programme of study that he set himself in
    the second phase of his career.

    1. THE BACKGROUND
    German philosophy, political theory and economics in the nineteenth century were very dierent from their counterparts in
    Britain. The dominant position of utilitarianism and classical
    political economy in the latter country was not reproduced in
    Germany, where these were held at arms length by the inuence of Idealism and, in the closing decades of the nineteenth
    century, by the growing impact of Marxism. In Britain, J. S.
    Mills System of Logic (1843) unied the natural and social sciences
    in a framework that tted comfortably within existing traditions
    in that country. Mill was Comtes most distinguished British
    disciple, if sharply critical of some of his excesses. Comtes

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