英文摘要 |
Although Yü’s Zhongguo Jinshi Zongjiao Lunli Yu Shangren Jingshen (The Modern Religious Ethics) has undergone a number of violent criticism, particularly regarding its misunderstandings about the methodology of Max Weber, it seems to us, this book does not lose its importance. We are going to demonstrate that we can find the notion of values in the rigorous research in social sciences, notion which governs the process in which a research is displayed. It arrives not only, at the same time, this process can realize the notion of “Wertfreiheirt” according to Weber. It is in this way that The Modern Religious Ethics, accomplish the construction of a specific type of cultural identity. This work led by him has for objective the imagination of historical “China”. The Chinese civilization that The Modern Religious Ethics imagines is reconcilable especially in its pre-modern period with the modern Western civilization. In other words, the draw and the ascent to the distant traditions seem to be beneficial, because they are seen as useful and available resources. At the same time, between the modern West and classic China, a remarkable affinity exists. From this point of view, it will be not so relevant to qualify this study of Yü of a heavy copying of Protestant Ethics of Weber, for this research reveals a cultural identity the demonstration of which is not invalidated as a result. |