The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings

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Hackett Publishing, 1997 M01 1 - 228 pages
This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville's most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert's introduction places Mandeville in a number of eighteenth-century debates -- particularly that of the nature and morality of commercial modernity -- and underscores the degree to which his work stood as a central problem, not only for his immediate English contemporaries, but for such philosophers as Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. The selections are substantive enough to faithfully represent Mandeville the social theorist, and compact enough to be used in courses that can afford to spend no more than a week on his work.
 

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Remark G On vice and the public good
56
Remark K On prodigality
63
On luxury
73
Remark N On envy and vanity
80
Remark O On pleasure and the comforts of life
87
Remark QOf frugality
94
Remark Y On ease
107
Selections from The Fable of the Bees Volume II 1728 1555
160
Selections from An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and
195
Presentment of the Grand Jury of the County
214
Suggestions for Further Reading
227
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E. J. Hundert is Professor of History, the University of British Columbia.

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