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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(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 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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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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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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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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Seven deadly sins (redirect from The Seven Sins)
Hinduism Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost Cardinal virtues Christian ethics Enneagram of Personality Eternal sin The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Public...
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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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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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