Mandeville’s Fable : : Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability / / Robin Douglass.
Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. In this boo...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions
- Introduction
- Part I Moral Psychology
- 1 Pride and Human Nature
- 2 The Morality of Pride
- 3 Sociability, Hypocrisy, and Virtue
- Part II Historical Narratives
- 4 The Desire of Dominion and Origin of Society
- 5 Honour, Religion, and War
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index