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The enlightenment's fable Bernard Mandeville and the discovery of society

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  • "The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals, connected to one another only by bonds of envy, competition and exploitation, is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the European Enlightenment. This book approaches this problem from the perspective of the challenge offered to inherited traditions of morality and social understanding by the Anglo-Dutch physician, satirist and philosopher, Bernard Mandeville. Mandeville's infamous paradoxical maxim "private vices, public benefits" profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, while his Fable of the Bees had decisive influence on David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant. Professor Hundert considers Mandeville's immersion in Epicurean natural philosophy, Dutch republicanism and Jansenist moral psychology to recover the sources and strategies of his science of human nature and the role of his ideas in shaping eighteenth century economic, social and moral theories.--Back cover."

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