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portada Mandeville’S Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability
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Physical Book
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Author
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780691218670

Mandeville’S Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability

Dr Robin Douglass (Author) · Princeton University Press · Hardcover

Mandeville’S Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability - Dr Robin Douglass

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Synopsis "Mandeville’S Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability "

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopher Bernard 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 book, Robin Douglass looks beyond the notoriety of Mandeville's great work to reclaim its status as one of the most incisive philosophical studies of human nature and the origin of society in the Enlightenment era. Focusing on Mandeville's moral, social, and political ideas, Douglass offers a revelatory account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher. Douglass expertly reconstructs Mandeville's theory of how self-centred individuals, who care for their reputation and social standing above all else, could live peacefully together in large societies. Pride and shame are the principal motives of human behaviour, on this account, with a large dose of hypocrisy and self-deception lying behind our moral practices. In his analysis, Douglass attends closely to the changes between different editions of the Fable; considers Mandeville's arguments in light of objections and rival accounts from other eighteenth-century philosophers, including Shaftesbury, Hume, and Smith; and draws on more recent findings from social psychology. With this detailed and original reassessment of Mandeville's philosophy, Douglass shows how The Fable of the Bees--by shining a light on the dark side of human nature--has the power to unsettle readers even today.

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