The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society
(Part of the Ideas in Context Series)
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The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the Enlightenment. This book approaches this problem from the perspective of the challenge offered to inherited traditions of morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous paradoxical maxim private vices, public benefits profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, while his...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521619424
ISBN13:9780521619424
Release Date:February 2005
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:300 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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