Name: The Fable of the Bees: Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. With an Essay on Charity and Charity-schools. And a Search Into the Nature of Soc
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Author: Bernard Mandeville
ISBN: 9781379840435

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The Fable of the Bees: Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. With an Essay on Charity and Charity-schools. And a Search Into the Nature of Soc

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bernard Mandeville

Publisher

Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Language

English

Pages

364

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.68 kg.

ISBN13

9781379840435

Synopsis "The Fable of the Bees: Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. With an Essay on Charity and Charity-schools. And a Search Into the Nature of Soc"

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT077576Anonymous. By Bernard de Mandeville.London: printed: and sold by J. Tonson, 1729. [12],348p.; 12

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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