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内容説明. It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733). He was a great satirist and came to have a profound impact on economics, ethics and social philosophy. "The Fable of the Bees" begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues.
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The censorious, that never saw the Grumbling Hive, will tell me, that whatever I may talk of the Fable, it not taking up a tenth part of the book, was only contrived to introduce the Remarks; that instead of clearing up the doubtful or obscure places, I have only pitched upon such as I had a mind to expatiate upon; and that far from striving to extenuate the errors committed before, I have ...
5. Sept. 1989 · Thesis of the book: People's private vices are used by society in a way that creates public benefits. If a society was virtuous it would have to give up the public benefits created by vice. I would recommend this book to anyone who finds its central ideas interesting. It is well written, original, and tells its story in a very creative way. The ...
- Bernard Mandeville
7. Nov. 2016 · July 20, 2011. Encompassing elements of economic thought, The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits consists of a poem, The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turn'd Honest, and commentary in prose. The poem opens: "A Spacious Hive well stock'd with Bees, That lived in Luxury and Ease;
2. Aufl. Frankfurt 1980 (stw 300) ISBN 3-518-27900-9 Die deutsche Ausgabe folgt dem Text der dritten Auflage von 1724. Alle Zitate mit Seitenangabe stammen aus dieser Ausgabe. The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. By Bernard Mandeville. With a Commentary Critical, Historical, and Explanatory by F. B. Kaye, 2 vol. Oxford ...
Among the masterworks of Augustan England few can be said to anticipate our dilemmas of individual, social, economic and political morality more ably than Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. Much misunderstood by his Augustan contemporaries, many of whom declared his book pernicious, Mandeville turned his physician's eye upon his society's health, and found that it thrived everywhere upon ...
