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The fable of the bees, or, Private vices, publick benefits
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The fable of the bees, or, Private vices, publick benefits [electronic resource] / newly edited, with an introd., by Irwin Primer.
Published
New York : Capricorn Books, [1962]
Physical Description
268 p. ; 21 cm.
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Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement.
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Summary
"Among the masterworks of Augustan England few can be said to anticipate our dilemmas of individual, social, economic and political morality more ably than Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. Much misunderstood by his Augustan contemporaries, many of whom declared his book pernicious, Mandeville turned his physician's eye upon his society's health, and found that it thrived everywhere upon individual corruptions. His analyses of the role of social ideals and personal impulses in human motivation are as stimulating today as they were in his time, and those who believe that the political morality of Machiavelli is still alive today cannot ignore the pungent social criticism of Mandeville, his kindred spirit"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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Language
English
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February 04, 2013
Series
CAP giant ; 216
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 20.
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