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Pride, manners, and morals : Bernard Mandeville's anatomy of honour
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Pride, manners, and morals : Bernard Mandeville's anatomy of honour / by Andrea Branchi.
ISBN
9789004194519
9004194517
9789004428430
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Physical Description
viii, 199 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"In Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour, Andrea Branchi offers a reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker's philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour. Through an examination of Mandeville's anatomy of early eighteenth-century beliefs, practices and manners in terms of motivating passions, the book traces the development of his thought on human nature and the origin of sociability. By making honour and its roots in the desire for recognition the central thread of Mandeville's theory of society, Andrea Branchi offers a unified reading of his work and highlights his relevance as a thinker far beyond the moral problem of commercial societies, opening up new perspectives in Mandeville's studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Branchi, Andrea. Pride, manners, and morals Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 04, 2022
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 334
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Chastity and courage
Bernard Mandeville's anatomy of honour
Prologue: Rotterdam, Leyden and London
Mandeville's continental background
Mandeville's female voices. The century of sex
The virgin unmask'd
Female education: "What girls should do with Latin?"
The Oxford gentleman and Philopirio. Living dead and public benefactors
The duel of honour
Medicine and philosophy: the hypp'd nation
The political offspring of pride. Powerful persuasions
Men of fashion, bullies in morality
Natural and artificial courage
Politeness and virtue. Mandeville's rise to fame
Hypocrisy and self-deception
The ticklish foundation of female virtue
Cleomenes and Horatio. Portrait of a complete gentleman
Self-liking and the origin of politeness
A conjectural history of sociability
Modern honour and the cult of the self. Martial virtue
The history of pride
Mandeville's challenge.
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