The Enlightenment's Fable
E. J. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) Hundert
Cambridge University Press, 1994
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The Enlightenment's 'Fable' examines the challenge offered to traditional morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous maxim 'private vices, public benefits' profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, and whose Fable of the Bees influenced Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Adam Smith.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521460828
- ISBN-10
- 0521460824
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1994
- Publication date
- 1994-06-16
- Pages
- 300
- Dimensions
- 235x162x27
- Weight
- 592