Name: Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church and National Happiness
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Author: Bernard Mandeville
ISBN: 9781498089166

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Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church and National Happiness

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bernard Mandeville

Publisher

Literary Licensing, LLC

Language

English

Pages

460

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.61 kg.

ISBN13

9781498089166

Synopsis "Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church and National Happiness"

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1729 Edition.

Bernard Mandeville

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Bernard Mandeville (Rotterdam, November 15, 1670 – Hackney, January 21, 1733) was an influential Anglo-Dutch thinker: physician, satirist, moral philosopher, and proto-economist. He earned his medical degree in Leiden in 1691 and moved to England shortly thereafter, where he practiced as a specialist in nervous and digestive diseases, and became highly esteemed socially.

His most famous work, The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits (1714), includes the original poem The Grumbling Hive (1705) accompanied by philosophical essays on moral virtue, benevolence, and hypotheses of society.
In this satire, Mandeville presents the paradox: private vices—such as luxury, vanity, or lust—generate social benefits by boosting consumption and employment, while austere virtue detracts from wealth and economic dynamism.

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