这次演讲我有意选择了一个大题目,如果要认真审查的话,需要囊括太多的材料方能得出一些结论。其实,这个题目很容易成为一系列讲演的基础,因此,本次演讲是有所选择的,仅限于我们所能讨论的问题。我的目标是探讨大约1300—1540年间三个因素之间的关联性,这三个因素是:作为一个国家、一个政权、一个民族的英格兰(England as a country,a state,and a nation)
By approaching the Catholic view of merchant and his profit,usury and the just price,the author affirms that catholic economic ethic was modified by theologists and canonists to adapt to economic and social development during the latter part of the Medieval Ages.Thus it was impossible to block the rise of capitalism according to Max Weber.catholic ethic’s transition from antagonising capitalism to approving capitalism demonstrated that any kind of value\|system must be inevitably changed along with the transformation of the mode of production and life.