Confucianism and Taoism

Author: Max Weber
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Publish Date: 2000-11-01
Features: This book is one of the "Translation Series of World Academic Masterpieces," and the author Max Weber is a renowned German sociologist, philosopher, and one of the influential social scientists of contemporary Western academia. In this book, Weber's research topic is: Why did capitalism not emerge in China as it did in the West? Weber dedicates significant to analyzing and studying Chinese social structures, focusing on the Confucian ethical system, which is the orthodox culture established upon these social structures, and also briefly examines Taoism, considered an heretical religion. Weber conducts a thorough and in-depth analysis and comparison between Confucianism and Western Puritanism, and ultimately concludes that Confucian ethics hindered the development of capitalism in China.