By E. J. Hundert
The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested contributors is a dominant smooth obstacle, yet one first systematically articulated through the Enlightenment. This ebook techniques this challenge from the point of view of the problem provided to inherited traditions of morality and social knowing by means of Bernard Mandeville, whose notorious paradoxical maxim "private vices, public merits" profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, whereas his The fantasy of the Bees had a decisive impression on David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant. Professor Hundert examines the assets and techniques of Mandeville's technology of human nature and the position of his principles in shaping eighteenth century fiscal, social and ethical theories.
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Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1957), p. 147. See especially Machiavelli, The Discourses, trans. L. Walter, ed. Bernard Crick (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), Chapter 19. Page 11 despotism of the Empire, it was held that the private scramble for money was one of the major dangers to the maintenance of freedom and public virtue. Instead, land seen as a patrimony that supported men at arms and sustained political independence was understood as the necessary economic foundation of the virtuous citizen.