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    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)
    rational linguistics, and the nature of free will. In her first independent work, the preface to her translation of the Fable of the Bees, du Châtelet argued...
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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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    (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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) (category 18th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland)
    also to be referred the Thoughts on Laughter (1725) (a criticism of Thomas Hobbes) and the Observations on the Fable of the Bees, being in all six letters...
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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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