Weber's Theory of Rationality has become the turning point of the discourse of modernity, and provided a historical foundation for the theories of modernity after it. 韦伯合理性理论对现代性的诊断已经成为西方现代性话语的转折点,在他之后的现代性理论大都对他的理论有着一种路径依赖关系。
When Weber affirmed the Protestant ethic and the capitalist spirit, he was affirming people's occupations and secular labor from a moral point of view. 韦伯对新教伦理与资本主义精神的肯定,是对人们的职业活动或世俗劳动的道德肯定,实际上就是对促进社会生产力的经济行为与求利行为的道德赞赏。