The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1714) is a book by the Anglo-Dutch social philosopher Bernard Mandeville. It consists of the...
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Bernard Mandeville (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Rotterdam, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for The Fable of the Bees. Mandeville was born...
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Émilie du Châtelet (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
linguistics, and the nature of free will.[citation needed] In her first independent work, the preface to her translation of the Fable of the Bees, du Châtelet...
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the paradox of thrift holds that collective thrift may be bad for the economy. It had been stated as early as 1714 in The Fable of the Bees, and similar...
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Augustan prose (section The precondition of literacy)
with its current title, The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits and included An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue. Mandeville...
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scandalous line of thought caused great controversy with the publication of Bernard Mandeville's influential work Fable of the Bees in 1714, in which...
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(Georgian, 1658–1725), author of The Book of Wisdom and Lies Bernard de Mandeville (English, 1670–1733), author of The Fable of the Bees John Gay (English, 1685–1732)...
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The Secret Life of Bees is a 2008 American drama film adapted from the 2001 novel of the same name by Sue Monk Kidd. Starring Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning...
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The Bear and the Bees is a fable of North Italian origin that became popular in other countries between the 16th - 19th centuries. There it has often...
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Seven deadly sins (redirect from The Seven Sins)
Tazkiah in Islam The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits Seven Social Sins The Seven Sins of Memory The Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times...
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Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of...
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for society as a whole. This is alluded to in the subtitle of his most famous work, The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits. He states...
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Selfishness (category Philosophy of life)
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (2003) pp. 138– Dante, Purgatorio (1971) p. 65 Francis Bacon, The Essays (1985) p. 131 Mandeville, The Fable of the...
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Modernity (redirect from Phases of modernity)
Bernard. 1714. The Fable of the Bees, or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. London: Printed for J. Roberts. Ninth edition, as The Fable of the Bees, or, Private...
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Prentice Hall, New York, 1970. Mandeville, B. (1715) The Fable of the Bees. Rawls, J. (1971) A Theory of Justice, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts...
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Mandeville discussed the matter in the second volume of The Fable of the Bees (1714). This elaborates many matters raised by the original poem about a...
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thought caused great controversy with the publication of Bernard Mandeville's influential work The Fable of the Bees in 1714, in which he argued that a country's...
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1723 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a public nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, England, to the Court of King's...
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A Modest Proposal (redirect from A modest Proposal for preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for making them Beneficial to the Publick)
Swift's title. Mandeville had by 1705 already become famous for The Fable of the Bees and deliberations on private vices and public benefits. John Locke...
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Augustan literature (redirect from Literature of the Georgian era)
philosophy, economics underlies much of the debate. Bernard de Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees (1714) became a centre-point of controversy regarding trade,...
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Douce Dame Jolie (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
Dr Cosgill, Fable of the Bees, Filia Irata, Två fisk och en fläsk (with lyrics), Wisby Vaganter, A La Via! (with lyrics), Lisa Lynne, The John Renbourn...
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Honey bees, signifying immortality and resurrection, were royal emblems of the Merovingians, revived by Napoleon. A community of honey bees has often...
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Chloe (category Epithets of Demeter)
from the movie Deep Impact Chloe, fictional character from Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 Chloe, the heroine of the poem The Fable of the Bees by...
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Adam Smith (redirect from Religious views of Adam Smith)
Mandeville, B., 1724, The Fable of the Bees, London: Tonson. Smith, A., 1976, The Glasgow edition, vol. 2a, pp. 145, 158. Smith, A., 1976, The Glasgow edition...
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New institutional economics (category Schools of economic thought)
Resource," Journal of Law and Economics, 13(1), pp. 49-70. S. N. S. Cheung (1973). "The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation," Journal of Law and Economics...
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Invisible hand (redirect from The invisible hand of the market)
the community. Bernard Mandeville argued that private vices are actually public benefits. In The Fable of the Bees (1714), he laments that the "bees of...
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Resource," Journal of Law and Economics, 13(1), pp. 49–70. S. N. S. Cheung (1973). "The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation," Journal of Law and Economics...
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The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. The...
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William Law (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
10 April on the calendars of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church. Remarks upon a Late Book, Entituled, The Fable of the Bees (1724) "A Practical...
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Consumerism (redirect from Religion of Consumerism)
This then-scandalous line of thought caused great controversy with the publication of the influential work Fable of the Bees in 1714, in which Bernard...
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