Thucydideic pragma
As Thucydidean pragma (from Greek πρᾶγμα pragma "action", "thing") Max Weber describes the type of historiography of Thucydides in his book about the Peloponnesian War . Thucydides does not stop at describing the events chronologically, but places them in causal relationships with one another. He succeeds in explaining: How did the Peloponnesian War come about, how did it go, and what was the result? For Weber, the emerging rationalism is a main characteristic of the Occident.
literature
- Max Weber: Collected essays on the sociology of religion. three volumes (partly revision of previously published articles).
- Volume 1: Preliminary Remarks, The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism , The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism, and The Business Ethics of the World Religions (Introduction; Part 1: Confucianism and Taoism ); Interim consideration, Tübingen 1920, 9th edition. 1988, ISBN 3-8252-1488-5 GARS I
Web links
- Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism at Zeno.org . (html)
- Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism . E-book: Epub , Mobi
- Collected essays on the sociology of religion (1921) on Internet archive
Footnotes
- ↑ Richard Schröder : Europe, what is it? Lecture April 2002, German Classical Philology Congress, Dresden ( online )