Confucianism and Taoism

There are currently four major cultural areas in the world, namely, the Christian cultural area, the Islamic cultural area, the Buddhist cultural area, and the Confucian ethical cultural area. The first three major cultural areas are all formed with religion as the center. While the Confucian ethical cultural area centered on China, although there is also religion within it, the condensed core of the entire cultural area is Confucian ethical culture, a culture based on family culture. This book is Max Weber's second work on the sociology of religion after "Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism", which studied Christian culture. The book takes Confucian ethics as the core and demonstrates the impact of Confucian ethics on Chinese society from all aspects of social life. It also compares it with Western Protestantism and tries to find out why capitalism failed to develop in China even though all conditions are better than those in the West.