The fable of the Bees
Author : Bernard de Mandeville
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 1724
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Author : Bernard de Mandeville
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 1724
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Author : Robin Douglass
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691224692
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.
Author : Bernard Mandeville
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 1806
Category : Charity-schools
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Author : Bernard de Mandeville
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1733
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Author : Bernard Mandeville
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1721
Category : Church history
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Author : George H. Smith
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1944424407
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.
Author : Bernard Mandeville
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752437448
Reproduction of the original: A Letter to Dion by Bernard Mandeville
Author : Phil-porney
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1724
Category : Prostitution
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Author : Jack Russell Weinstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300163754
In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723-1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offering an interpretive methodology for approaching Smith's two major works, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments "and "The Wealth of Nations," Weinstein argues against the libertarian interpretation of Smith, emphasizing his philosophies of education and rationality. Weinstein also demonstrates that Smith should be recognized for a prescient theory of pluralism that prefigures current theories of cultural diversity.
Author : Edmundo Balsemão Pires
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319193813
This book integrates studies on the thought of Bernard de Mandeville and other philosophers and historians of Modern Thought. The chapters reflect a rethinking of Mandeville’s legacy and, together, present a comprehensive approach to Mandeville’s work. The book is published on the occasion of the 300 years that have passed since the publication of the Fable of the Bees. Bernard de Mandeville disassembled the dichotomies of traditional moral thinking to show that the outcomes of the social action emerge as new, non-intentional effects from the combination of moral opposites, vice and virtue, in such a form that they lose their moral significance. The work of this great writer, philosopher and physician is interwoven with an awareness of the paradoxical nature of modern society and the challenges that this recognition brings to an adequate perspective on the historical world of modernity.