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.
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"Hundert's account of Mandeville's ideas, sources, and influence on later thinkers is both comprehensive and detailed." American Historical Review
"This is a spirited history of great culture and learning that delights on every page....certainly his [Hundert's] meticulous retrieval of Mandeville's enduring notoriety is a fluent, provocative, and exciting tour de force." Canadian Philosophical Reviews
"This is a spirited history of great culture and learning that delights on every page....certainly his [Hundert's] meticulous retrieval of Mandeville's enduring notoriety is a fluent, provocative, and exciting tour de force." Canadian Philosophical Reviews
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The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals, connected only by envy, competition, and exploitation, was first systematically articulated during the European Enlightenment. The Enlightenmentts bFablet examines the challenge offered to traditions of morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous maxim bprivate vices, public benefitst profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, and whose Fable of the bees influenced David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant.
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Adam Smith, Joseph Andrews, Cambridge University Press, Free Thoughts, Second Discourse, New York, William Law, Bernard Mandeville, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, The Hague, Clarendon Press, Tom Jones, Francis Hutcheson, Collected Works, Henry Fielding, The Spirit of the Laws, Divine Legation, Pierre Bayle, David Hume, Epicurus's Morals, Pierre Nicole, Collection of Letters, The Virgin Unmask'd, Walter Charleton New!
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The Fable of the Bees was the Enlightenment's epitome of immoralism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
selfish theorists, commercial sociability, commercial modernity, dextrous management, des abeilles, ouvres complètes, hypothetical history, minute philosopher Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Adam Smith, Joseph Andrews, Cambridge University Press, Free Thoughts, Second Discourse, New York, William Law, Bernard Mandeville, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, The Hague, Clarendon Press, Tom Jones, Francis Hutcheson, Collected Works, Henry Fielding, The Spirit of the Laws, Divine Legation, Pierre Bayle, David Hume, Epicurus's Morals, Pierre Nicole, Collection of Letters, The Virgin Unmask'd, Walter Charleton New!
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