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 human science shows up in Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which connects the advancement of free enterprise to social and social components, principally religion, rather than financial factors alone. In his hypothesis Weber presumes that the Protestant Ethic significantly impacted the advancement of free enterprise in the seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years. As indicated by Gordon Marshall, Weber contends that the two most significant elements of Protestantism adding to private enterprise were ingenuity in common reasons for living or employments and the thought of fate (71). On the off chance that to be sure these strict variables 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 actuality such Protestant thoughts as calling and destin y, which were available in the religion of the time, interface with entrepreneur thoughts in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, who was himself a sincere Protestant that pre-owned his works to impact both the strict and monetary perspectives on his perusers (Earle 31). On the off chance that Weber's contention is reasonable, 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 private enterprise. A particularly fascinating inquiry that emerges from this investigation is the way a social structure that is customarily viewed as a-good, uncalled for, and materialistic (i.e., financial aspects) can be supported 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