The Enlightenment''s Fable : Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Ideas in Context
ISBN-10
0521460824
ISBN-13
9780521460828
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 16th, 1994
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
592 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.20 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
History of ideasHistory of ideasSociology & anthropologySociology and anthropology
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The Enlightenment's 'Fable' examines the challenge offered to traditional morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous maxim 'private vices, public benefits' profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, and whose Fable of the Bees influenced Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Adam Smith.
The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals, connected only by bonds of envy, competition, and exploitation, is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the European Enlightenment. The Enlightenment's 'Fable' approaches this problem from the perspective of the challenge offered to inherited traditions of morality and social understanding by the Anglo-Dutch physician, satirist and philosopher, Bernard Mandeville. Mandeville's infamous paradoxical maxim 'private vices, public benefits' profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, while his 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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