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 compelling speculations in humanism shows up in Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which interfaces the advancement of private enterprise to social and social elements, basically religion, rather than monetary factors alone. In his hypothesis Weber presumes that the Protestant Ethic significantly impacted the improvement of free enterprise in the seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years. As indicated by Gordon Marshall, Weber contends that the two most significant components of Protestantism adding to private enterprise were steadiness in common reasons for living or jobs and the idea of fate (71). On the off chance that without a doubt these strict components influenced the ascent of free enterprise, it would bode well that other social components, for example, writing, would reflect both Protestant and entrepreneur belief system. This exposition shows that in truth such Protestant thoughts as calling and destiny, which w ere available in the religion of the time, communicate with industrialist thoughts in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, who was himself a dedicated Protestant that pre-owned his compositions to impact both the strict and financial perspectives on his perusers (Earle 31). In the event that Weber's contention is viable, 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 intriguing inquiry that emerges from this investigation is the means by which a social structure that is customarily viewed as a-good, uncalled for, and materialistic (i.e., financial aspects) can be advocated by a structure that is viewed as good, just, and profound (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