“韦伯命题”一方面集中探讨了欧洲宗教改革之后的新教伦理在资本主义产生过程中的重要作用;一方面又从物质和精神两方面分析了中国未能自发产生资本主义的原因。此命题在当今仍然是我们理解文化和现代化关系的重要路径和视角。在当前的现代化建设中,我们应该努力地去挖掘和吸收传统文化中存在的现代因子,使其更好地为我国的现代化建设服务。 On the one hand, Weber’s proposition concentrates on the important role of Protestant ethics after the European Reformation in the process of capitalism. On the one hand, it analyzes the reasons why China can not spontaneously produce capitalism in both material and spiritual terms. This proposition today remains an important path and perspective for us to understand the relationship between culture and modernization. In the current modernization drive, we should work hard to tap and absorb the modern factors existing in the traditional culture so that we can better serve our country’s modernization.