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The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1714) is a book by the Anglo-Dutch social philosopher Bernard Mandeville. It consists of the satirical poem The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn'd Honest , which was first published anonymously in 1705; a prose discussion of the poem, called "Remarks"; and an essay, An ...
In the poem, Mandeville imagines a hive of bees that copies in its every detail and activity everything seen in human society. Greed, selfishness, the pursuit of material profit and pleasure dominate everyone in their activities and in their conduct toward others.
Mandeville’s most notable and notorious work, however, was The Fable of the Bees; it began as an anonymous pamphlet of doggerel verse in 1705, entitled The Grumbling Hive: Or, Knaves Turn’d Honest.
The Fable of the Bees. Ideas. Private vice, public benefit. Vegetarianism. Influence. Bibliography. See also. Notes. References. Further reading. External links. Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville ( / ˈmændəˌvɪl /; 15 November 1670 – 21 January 1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist, satirist, writer and physician.
For the main design of the Fable (as it is briefly explained in the Moral), is to show the impossibility of enjoying all the most elegant comforts of life, that are to be met with in an industrious, wealthy and powerful nation, and at the same time, be blessed with all the virtue and innocence that can be wished for in a golden age; from thence ...
Bernard de Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees (first published 1705 as The Grumbling Hive; or, Knaves Turn’d Honest) illustrated the rapacious nature of humans in society through the age-old metaphor of the kingdom of the bees. In modern times, children’s literature has made use of animal fable but…
The Fable of the Bees Bernard Mandeville Glossary connive: Used here in its proper sense: if you ‘connive at’ my doing x, you pretend not to know that I am doing it, although really you ought to stop me. From a Latin verb meaning ‘wink’. content: In Remark V and the related part of the Poem, this noun means ‘contentment’.
