Author: Bernard de Mandeville
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Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Bernard Mandeville
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Bernard Mandeville
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ISBN: 9783487070377
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Author: Bernard de Mandeville
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Bernard de Mandeville
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Author: Bernard Mandeville
Publisher: Transaction Pub
ISBN: 9780765800299
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Bernard Mandeville was best known for The Fable of the Bees, in which he demolishes the supposed moral basis of society by a Hobbesian demonstration that civilization depends on vice. Today Mandeville is seen as a trenchant satirist of the manners and foibles of his age. He is also seen as a precursor of some of Adam Smith's doctrines, a forerunner in the field of sociology. A prescient analyst of the dynamics of our modern consumer society, Mandeville is author of a striking naturalistic account of the gradual evolution of modern society from its primitive antecedents. His literary signature, in a manner of speaking, is his famous paradox, "private vices, public benefits." This new edition of Free Thoughts is prefaced by a lengthy and informative introduction by Irwin Primer, who recreates not only the literary, political, and religious atmosphere surrounding Mandeville, but also the controversies that surrounded his writing in mid-eighteenth-century England. Primer includes textual notes on the first and second editions of this classic work. To understand Mandeville's Free Thoughts, one needs to situate it within the context of the religious and political controversies, ongoing subversion, fear and dormant warfare of his times. Those would eventually erupt again and for the last time in the bloody Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46. The first five chapters of the book explore religious and theological issues including the nature of belief and knowledge, the significance of rites and ceremonies, and controversies about Christian mysteries such as the Trinity and free will and predestination. The next five chapters explore controversial issues of church politics, including persecution and toleration across the centuries, the basis of Mandeville's anticlericalism. In the eleventh chapter, he turns aside from matters of religion to review the balance of powers in Britain's government, a mixed or limited monarchy. The final chapter is essentially a repetition of Mandeville's pleas for civil and religious peace through mutual toleration by opposing religious parties. Mandeville's work is of continuing interest to students of culture and history, religion and theology, and political science. Irwin Primer is professor emeritus at Rutgers University who has written widely on Mandeville and the Scottish tradition in philosophy.

Author: BERNARD. MANDEVILLE
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379723592
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Languages : en
Pages : 406

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T059022 B. M. = Bernard de Mandeville. The last six leaves contain the index. P. xix numbered correctly. Variant: p. xix misnumbered ixx. London: printed, and sold by T. Jauncy, and J. Roberts, 1720. [2], xix, [3],364, [12]p.; 8°

Author: Bernard Mandeville
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497894907
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1729 Edition.

Author: Kenneth Sheppard
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004288163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England traces the emergence and transformation of a distinct apologetic discourse called the confutation of atheism.

Author: Joris Van Eijnatten
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004128439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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This study, based on a large number of sources and treating a broad variety of topics, offers an outline of developments in the early modern intellectual debate on religious liberty, religious toleration, and religious concord in the eighteenth-century Netherlands.