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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 Mandevilles science of human nature and the role of his ideas in shaping eighteenth century economic, social and moral theories.
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The Enlightenment's Fable : Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society Ideas in Context
author
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Hundert, E. J.
publisher
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Cambridge University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0521460824
print isbn13
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9780521460828
ebook isbn13
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9780511005817
language
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English
subject
Mandeville, Bernard,--1670-1733--Contributions in sociology, Mandeville, Bernard,--1670-1733--Contributions in economics, Mandeville, Bernard,--1670-1733.--Fable of the bees, Self-interest, Economic man, Enlightenment.
publication date
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1994
lcc
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HM22.G8M334 1994eb
ddc
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301/.092
subject
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Mandeville, Bernard,--1670-1733--Contributions in sociology, Mandeville, Bernard,--1670-1733--Contributions in economics, Mandeville, Bernard,--1670-1733.--Fable of the bees, Self-interest, Economic man, Enlightenment.
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The Enlightenment's Fable
Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society
Ideas in Context
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IDEAS IN CONTEXT
Edited by QUENTIN SKINNER General Editor Series editors LORRAINE DASTON, WOLF LEPENIES, RICHARD RORTY AND J.B. SCHNEEWIND
The books in this series will discuss the emergence of intellectual traditions and of related new disciplines. The procedures, aims and vocabularies that were generated will be set in the context of the alternatives available within the contemporary frameworks of ideas and institutions. Through detailed studies of the evolution of such traditions, and their modification by different audiences, it is hoped that a new picture will form of the development of ideas in their concrete contexts. By this means, artificial distinctions between the history of philosophy, of the various sciences, of society and politics, and of literature may be seen to dissolve.
The series is published with the support of the Exxon Foundation
A list of books in the series will be found at the end of the volume.
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The Enlightenment's Fable
Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society
E. G. Hundert
Associate Professor of History The University of British Columbia
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Cambridge University Press 1994 This edition Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) 2001
First published 1994 Reprinted 1996
Printed in Great Britain at Athenum Press Ltd, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
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Hundert, E.J. The enlightenment's 'fable': Bernard Mandeville and the discovery of society/E.J. Hundert. p. cm. (Ideas in context) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0 521 46082 4 1. Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733-Contributions in sociology. 2. Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733-Contributions in economics. 3. Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733. Fable of the bees. 4. Self-interest. 5. Economic man. 6. Enlightenment. I. Title. II. Series. HM22.G8M334 1994 93-36440 301'.092-dc20 CIP
ISBN 0 521 46082 4 hardback
eISBN 0511005814 virtual (netLibrary Edition)
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for Martha
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Whenever anyone speaks, without bitterness... of man as a belly with two needs and a head with one; when ever anyone sees, seeks and wants to see only hunger, sexual desire, and vanity, as though these were the actual and sole motives of human actions; in brief, whenever anyone speaks ''badly" of man but does not speak ill of him the lover of knowledge should listen carefully and with diligence. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Though words be the signs we have of another's opinions and intentions; yet, because of the equivocation of them is so frequent according to the diversity of contexture, and the company wherewith they go (which the presence of him that speaketh, our sight of his actions and conjecture of his intentions, must help to discharge us of): It must be extremely hard to find out the opinions and meanings of those men that are gone from us long ago, and have left us no other signification thereof but their books; which cannot possibly be understood without history enough to discover those aforementioned circumstances, and also without great prudence to observe them. Hobbes, Human Nature
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