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The Fable of the Bees - Couverture souple

Mandeville, Bernard De

 
9783849685669: The Fable of the Bees
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3849685667 ISBN 13 : 9783849685669
Editeur : Jazzybee Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

Mandeville's philosophy gave great offence at the time, and has always been stigmatized as false, cynical and degrading. His main thesis is that the actions of men cannot be divided into lower and higher. In the Fable he shows a society possessed of all the virtues “blest with content and honesty,” falling into apathy and utterly paralyzed. The absence of self-love is the death of progress. The so-called higher virtues are mere hypocrisy, and arise from the selfish desire to be superior to the brutes. He endeavours to show that all social laws are the crystallized results of selfish aggrandizement and protective alliances among the weak.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Mandeville's philosophy gave great offence at the time, and has always been stigmatized as false, cynical and degrading. His main thesis is that the actions of men cannot be divided into lower and higher. In the Fable he shows a society possessed of all the virtues “blest with content and honesty,” falling into apathy and utterly paralyzed. The absence of self-love is the death of progress. The so-called higher virtues are mere hypocrisy, and arise from the selfish desire to be superior to the brutes. He endeavours to show that all social laws are the crystallized results of selfish aggrandizement and protective alliances among the weak.

Biographie de l'auteur

Bernard Mandeville

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Éditeur
Jazzybee Verlag
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3849685667
ISBN 13 
9783849685669
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
420
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