Intermediate Reflection on the Economic Ethics of the World Religions
1916 essay by Max Weber
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"Intermediate Reflection on the Economic Ethics of the World Religions", also known as "Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions" (German: Zwischenbetrachtung. Theorie der Stufen und Richtungen religiöser Weltablehnung), is a 1916 essay written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist. The original edition was published in German as an essay in the 1916 issues of the German: Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, and various translations to English exist.
In this essay Weber analysed the different value-spheres in life, including intellectual, aesthetic, religious, economic, erotic, and political.[1] Its discussion of the erotic was influenced by Weber's relationships with Else von Richthofen and Mina Tobler.[2]
