Enlightenment's Fable

Auteur: Hundert, E. J. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
The Enlightenment's 'Fable' examines the challenge offered to traditional morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous maxim 'private vices, public benefits' profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, and whose Fable of the Bees influenced Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Adam Smith.
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The Enlightenment's 'Fable' examines the challenge offered to traditional morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous maxim 'private vices, public benefits' profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, and whose Fable of the Bees influenced Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Adam Smith.
ISBN / EAN 9780521460828
Auteur Hundert, E. J. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Editeur Cambridge University Press