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The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society (Ideas in Context) Book

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.Read More

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  • 0521619424
  • 9780521619424
  • E. J. Hundert
  • 17 February 2005
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 300
  • New Ed
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