Author: Bernard de MandevillePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The fable of the Bees
Author: Bernard de MandevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
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Category : Charity-schools
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Mandeville’s Fable
Author: Robin DouglassPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691219176
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopher Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. In this book, Robin Douglass looks beyond the notoriety of Mandeville’s great work to reclaim its status as one of the most incisive philosophical studies of human nature and the origin of society in the Enlightenment era. Focusing on Mandeville’s moral, social, and political ideas, Douglass offers a revelatory account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher. Douglass expertly reconstructs Mandeville’s theory of how self-centred individuals, who care for their reputation and social standing above all else, could live peacefully together in large societies. Pride and shame are the principal motives of human behaviour, on this account, with a large dose of hypocrisy and self-deception lying behind our moral practices. In his analysis, Douglass attends closely to the changes between different editions of the Fable; considers Mandeville’s arguments in light of objections and rival accounts from other eighteenth-century philosophers, including Shaftesbury, Hume, and Smith; and draws on more recent findings from social psychology. With this detailed and original reassessment of Mandeville’s philosophy, Douglass shows how The Fable of the Bees—by shining a light on the dark side of human nature—has the power to unsettle readers even today.
The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
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Category : Charity-schools
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The fable of the bees. Pt. II. Appendixes: Mandevilles̕ family (with genealogical table) Description of the editions. Criticisms of the fable. A list, chronologically arranged, of references to Mandevilles̕ works. Index to commentary
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charity-schools
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings
Author: Emilie Du ChâteletPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226168085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica that is still the standard edition of that work in French. Had she been a man, her reputation as a member of the eighteenth-century French intellectual elite would have been assured. In the 1970s, feminist historians of science began the slow work of recovering Du Châtelet’s writings and her contributions to history and philosophy. For this edition, Judith P. Zinsser has selected key sections from Du Châtelet’s published and unpublished works, as well as related correspondence, part of her little-known critique of the Old and New Testaments, and a treatise on happiness that is a refreshingly uncensored piece of autobiography—making all of them available for the first time in English. The resulting volume will recover Châtelet’s place in the pantheon of French letters and culture.
The fable of the bees. Pt. II. Appendixes: Mandeville's family (with genealogical table) Description of the editons. Criticisms of the fable. A list, chronologically arranged, of references to Mandeville's work. Index to commentary
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charity-schools
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Enlightenment's Fable
Author: E. J. HundertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521619424
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the Enlightenment. This book approaches this problem from the perspective of the challenge offered to inherited traditions of morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous paradoxical maxim "private vices, public benefits" profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, while his The Fable of the Bees had a decisive influence on David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant. Professor Hundert examines the sources and strategies of Mandeville's science of human nature and the role of his ideas in shaping eighteenth century economic, social and moral theories.
Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism
Author: George H. SmithPublisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 1944424407
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
There is a well-worn image and phrase for libertarianism: ?atomized individualism.? This hobgoblin has spread so thoroughly that even some libertarians think their philosophy unreservedly supports private persons, whatever the situation, whatever their behavior. Smith?s Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism, corrects this misrepresentation with careful intellectual surveys of Hume, Smith, Hobbes, Butler, Mandeville, and Hutcheson and their respective contributions to political philosophy.