Religion and Economics in Robinson Crusoe and Protestant Ethic and the

Religion and Economics in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismâ â â â â â â â â â â One of the most perceived and persuasive speculations in humanism shows up in Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which connects the advancement of private enterprise to social and social components, essentially religion, rather than financial factors alone. In his hypothesis Weber presumes that the Protestant Ethic enormously affected the advancement of private enterprise in the seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years. As indicated by Gordon Marshall, Weber contends that the two most significant variables of Protestantism adding to private enterprise were determination in common reasons for living or jobs and the idea of destiny (71). In the event that without a doubt these strict components influenced the ascent of private enterprise, it would bode well that other social components, for example, writing, would reflect both Protestant and entrepreneur belief system. This article shows that in certainty such Protestant thoughts as calling and fate, whi ch were available in the religion of the time, interface with entrepreneur thoughts in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, who was himself an ardent Protestant that pre-owned his compositions to impact both the strict and monetary perspectives on his perusers (Earle 31). In the event that Weber's contention is legitimate, at that point Robinson Crusoe may serve to speak to in fiction the Protestant Ethic in mid eighteenth century society and its creating soul of free enterprise. A particularly fascinating inquiry that emerges from this investigation is the manner by which a social structure that is generally viewed as a-good, out of line, and materialistic (i.e., financial aspects) can be legitimized by a structure that is viewed as good, just, and otherworldly (i.e., rel... ...ork: Scribner's, 1954. Earle, Peter. The World of Defoe. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. Forell, George W. The Protestant Faith. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960. Marshall, Gordon. In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism: An Essay on Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis. New York: Columbia UP, 1982. Pauck, Wilhelm. The Heritage of Reformation. New York: Oxford UP, 1950. Reshef, Yonatan. Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. n. pag. On the web. Web. 5 October 1999. Accessible: http://courses.bus.ualberta.ca/orga417/weber.htm Tawney, R. H. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study. London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, 1926. Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. On the web. 10 October 1999. Accessible: http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/ssrl/PRELIMS/Theory/weber.html#weber2. Â