The Transformation of Social Mentality of Economy: Hellas and Turkey

Year 2011, , 129 - 152, 01.05.2011

Christos Teazis

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000274

Abstract

The Transformation of Social Mentality of Economy: Hellas and Turkey

Abstract

In western countries the life of a human being is a composition of inevitable circumstances or coincidences. But in Eastern societies the life of a human being is his destiny. This approach to human life in West and East shows two different ways of thinking which undoubtedly, shapes the socio-economic way of thinking of Hellas and Turkey and West‟s too. The thesis of this article, firstly, is to show the diversity of socioeconomic way of thinking of Hellas and Turkey towards the West and secondly, to show the conditions that being transformed into a Protestant way of thinking

Keywords

Hellas Greece , Turkey, Protestant ethic, Orthodoxy, Islam, West, East, Community