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Max Weber Abstract Max Weber and many modern scholars have discussed the relations between East Asian economic development and Confucian ethic fervently. The present article examines their arguments and further explores Confucian wealth thought in the periods of pre-ch in and the two Han Dynasties, including whether poverty is the condition of virtue, if Chun-tzu can devote himself to the pursuit of higher wealth, the reasonable limit of possessions, the traits of personality when one is poor or rich, the morality of avenues to obtain wealth, and the just principle of wealth distribution, etc. Keywords: Confucianism, wealth, poverty, morality, virtue, noble man, economic development, capitalism, economic ethic, Confucian ethic, Max Weber 2/25
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