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  title info:
    title: Mandeville's Fable
    sub title: pride, hypocrisy, and sociability
  name:
    name part: Douglass, Robin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 249 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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-centered 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 behavior, 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.
  note: Robin Douglass.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mandeville, Bernard
      name part: 1670-1733
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Conscience
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Conduct of life
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / Political
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
  classification: BJ1520 .D68 2023
  classification: 170
  identifier: 9780691218670
  identifier: 0691218676
  identifier: 9780691219172
  identifier: 0691219176
  identifier: 9780691224695
  identifier: 2022056587
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221123
    record change date: 20240104203411.7
    record identifier: in00004723198