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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 ...
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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 ...
Mandeville is a witty satirist who used a poem to make the profound economic point that “private vices” (or self-interest) lead to “publick benefits” (such as orderly social structures like law, language, and markets). Buy this Book.
THE FABLE OF THE BEES: or Private Vices, Publick Benefits. By Bernard Mandeville. With a Commentary Critical, Historical, and Explanatory by F. B. Kaye. Two volumes. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. 1924. pp.cxlvi +412, and 481. The name of Mandeville has undoubtedly suffered both an undeserved odium and an undeserved oblivion, and Professor
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- Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733
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2 An example of this point is the sense in which Mandeville 's critics misin-terpreted the subtitle of the Fable. The phrase Private Vices, Publick Benefits was supposed to be a summons to immorality. This was far from Mandeville's thought. As he said in his Letter to Dion ( his reply to Berkeley's Alciphron):
Books. The Fable of the Bees: Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits: With An Essay on Charity and Charity-schools. And a Search Into the Nature of Society. Bernard de...
