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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