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The Fable of the Bees Bernard Mandeville Preface flourishing people and wonderfully greedy for all the benefits they can receive as such, are always exclaiming against the vices [see Glossary] and inconveniences that have—from the beginning of the world to this present day—been inseparable from all kingdoms and states that ever were famed for
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1. Jan. 1997 · The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings. Bernard Mandeville, E. J. Hundert. Hackett Publishing, Jan 1, 1997 - Literary Collections - 228 pages. This edition...
- Bernard Mandeville, E. J. Hundert
- 0872203743, 9780872203747
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- Hackett Publishing, 1997
In his famous and extremely controversial 'Fable of the Bees' (1714) Mandeville described how 'private vices lead to public benefits'. Our economies and societies would be ruined, were it not for people's selfish desires and whims. What use of locksmiths if there are no burglars? How many doctors would become jobless if all people followed ...
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The Fable of the Bees. : This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor...
- Bernard Mandeville
- E. J. Hundert
- E. J. Hundert
Hundert's Introduction places Mandeville in a number of eighteenth-century debates--particularly that of the nature and morality of commercial modernity--and underscores the degree to which his work stood as a central problem, not only for his immediate English contemporaries, but for such philosophers as Hume, Rousseau, and Kant.
The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings. Bernard Mandeville. Edited, with Introduction, by E. J. Hundert. 1997 - 260 pp. Add to Cart.
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