Książka Enlightenment's Fable E. J. Hundert

Enlightenment's Fable

Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society

Autor: E. J. Hundert
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals, connected only by bond...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
1994
strony
300
EAN
9780521460828
ISBN
0521460824
Enbook ID
02031740
Waga
610
Wymiary
152 x 229 x 21

Pełny opis

The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals, connected only by bonds of envy, competition, and exploitation, is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the European Enlightenment. The Enlightenment's 'Fable' 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 a decisive influence on David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant. Professor Hundert examines the sources and strategies of Mandeville's science of human nature and the role of his ideas in shaping eighteenth century economic, social and moral theories.

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