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  • The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits

    Enriched edition. A Satirical Allegory of Self-Interest, Moral Paradox, and Social Prosperity

    by Bernard Mandeville ...
    In "The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits," Bernard Mandeville employs a satirical and allegorical narrative to explore the complex interplay between individual morality and societal benefit. The text critiques conventional notions of virtue by suggesting that private vices, such as greed and vanity, can inadvertently lead to public prosperity. Mandeville's innovative use of ... Read more

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  • The Fable of the Bees

    Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits

    by Bernard Mandeville ...
    If you think 18th century economic philosophy is by definition dry and boring, check out Bernard Mandeville's 1714 poem "The Fable of the Bees." It espouses the benefits of selfishness as a way of increasing economic prosperity -- a common enough idea today, but one that was so scandalous at the time of its publication that Mandeville was convicted by a grand jury and widely denounced by the most ... Read more

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  • A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology

    Classic Investigations of Poverty, Crime, Slums, Vagrancy, Vice, and Social Reform

    by Harry Best, Jacob A. Riis, W. T. Stead, Eugene S. Talbot, Lillian William Betts, John E. Gunckel, Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke, Guy Thorne, Bernard Mandeville, Samuel Merwin, Arthur Lawrence Hayward, James Harold Romain, Clifton R. Wooldridge, William Booth, L. O. Curon, Mary Higgs, George M. White, Sigmund Engel, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, John Josiah Munro, Caroline H. Woods, Nels Anderson, Charles Kingston, Josiah Flynt, Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg, V. M. Masten, Hans Kurella, R. M. Algie, A-No. 1, Louis Albert Banks, Samuel Paynter Wilson, W. A. Chapple, Roland Burnham Molineux, Carlo de Fornaro, John Thomas Smith, Roy K. Anderson, Jacobus X, Wellington Scott ...
    A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology gathers a far-reaching body of writing on poverty, homelessness, crime, vice, institutional life, urban reform, and the social consequences of industrial modernity. Its materials span investigative reportage, sociological observation, reformist argument, case study, memoir, moral commentary, and popular exposé. The collection's breadth is ... Read more

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  • The Fable of the Bees

    by Bernard Mandeville, Phillip Harth ...
    A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem The Angry Hive, 1705. The version of the Fable of 1723 and 1732 are the fullest defences of his early paradox that social benefit is the unintended consequence of personal ... Read more

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  • The Fable of the Bees

    by Bernard Mandeville ...
    This is the extended edition including * an extensive biography and bibliography of Mr. de Mandeville The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits is a book by Bernard Mandeville, consisting of the poem The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn'd Honest and prose discussion of it. The poem was published in 1705 and the book first appeared in 1714. The poem elucidates many key principles of ... Read more

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  • The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

    A 70-Work Anthology of Comic Dissent, Social Critique, and Satirical Tradition

    by Molière, St. John Hankin, Elizabeth F. Guptill, Petronius Arbiter, Anthony Trollope, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Carlyle, George Gibbs, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, Herman Melville, Maria Edgeworth, Marietta Holley, Anatole France, Nelson Lloyd, Voltaire, Samuel Brunt, Archibald Marshal, Gilbert Knox, H. H. Sir Bashford, P. G. Wodehouse, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Love Peacock, William Carlos Williams, Terry Southern, Hilaire Belloc, Iris Barry, C. M. Westmacott, Desiderius Erasmus, I. J. Potter, Montague Glass, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Elkanah Settle, Samuel Pordage, Bernard Mandeville, James Thomson, G. W. Foote, Marie Corelli, William Herman, Mark Twain, Ingersoll Lockwood, Jonathan Swift, T. Smollett, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Bertram Gayton, George S. Schuyler, Eugen Richter, Walter Harte, Aristophanes, Bill Nye, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Bridges, James Bramston, Ambrose Bierce, Franklin P. Adams, John Hervey Baron Hervey, An M. D., Frank Chapman Bliss ...
    The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads maps satire's remarkable durability from classical invective and Roman social comedy to Enlightenment irony, Victorian caricature, modernist experiment, and twentieth-century absurdism. Its selections traverse dramatic farce, mock-heroic prose, utopian fantasy, political allegory, comic essay, parody, and epigrammatic wit. Canonical assaults on hypocrisy, ... Read more

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  • Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books

    A Cross-Cultural Anthology of Virtue, Duty, Self-Mastery, Social Justice, and Moral Philosophy

    by Booker T. Washington, Richard Baxter, James Harold Romain, Cora May Williams, John Hamilton Moore, Aristotle, John H. Stapleton, Franz Brentano, Margaret Slattery, G. E. Moore, T. De Witt Talmage, Bernard Mandeville, William De Witt Hyde, Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby, J. M. Judy, Thomas Fowler, M. Valentine, John Dewey, W. R. Sorley, Kenneth Ingram, S. A. D. Tissot, Robert Chenault Givler, James Hayden Tufts, Goldwin Smith, Mabel Anne McKee, Malcolm Guthrie, Maurice Francis Egan, Alfred Russel Wallace, S. M. I. Henry, Rudolf Eucken, Horatio Robinson Storer, Edward Abbott Sir Parry, Epictetus, Emil Edward Kusel, Stephen S. Wise, H. G. Wells, John Bunyan, George Horace Lorimer, Oliver Optic, Horatio Jr. Alger, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Plutarch, Arthur Christopher Benson, Benedictus de Spinoza, Felix Adler, Iamblichus, W. R. Washington Sullivan, Laurence Housman, Upton Sinclair ...
    Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books assembles a capacious library of moral inquiry, bringing philosophical argument, religious meditation, social criticism, self-culture, political reflection, and popular instruction into sustained conversation. Its range extends from classical accounts of virtue and discipline to modern discussions of conscience, education, reform, labor, peace, and public ... Read more

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  • A Letter to Dion

    by Bernard Mandeville ...
    "A Letter to Dion" by Bernard Mandeville is a thought-provoking work that delves into the complexities of human nature and society. Mandeville, known for his controversial views on morality and economics, uses this letter format to engage in a dialogue about the virtues and vices that drive human behavior. He challenges conventional wisdom, suggesting that self-interest and vice can lead to ... Read more

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  • An Enquiry Into An Origin Of Honour And The Usefulness Of Christianity In War

    by Bernard Mandeville ...
    An enquiry into the origin of honour and the usefulness of Christianity in war examines the foundations of moral behavior by questioning how honour is formed and how it functions within society and conflict. The work approaches honour not as innate virtue but as a socially cultivated impulse shaped by pride, recognition, and collective approval. Through philosophical discussion, the text ... Read more

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  • An Enquiry Into the Origin of Honour, and the Usefulness of Christianity in War

    by Bernard Mandeville ...
    THE I take it for granted, that a Christian is not bound to believe any Thing to have been of Divine Institution, that has not been declared to be such in Holy Writ. Yet great Offence has been taken at an Essay, in the First Part of the Fable of the Bees, call’d An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue; notwithstanding the great Caution it is wrote with. Since then, it is thought Criminal to ... Read more

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  • An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War

    by Bernard Mandeville ...
    "An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War" by Bernard Mandeville explores the complex relationship between societal values and the concept of honour. Mandeville delves into how honour is constructed within social contexts and its implications for human behavior. He argues that honour is not merely an innate quality but rather a social construct that can be ... Read more

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  • The Fable of the Bees

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Bernard Mandeville ...
    Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is a wickedly ingenious satire on the uneasy bargain between private vice and public prosperity. At its center is the famous poem The Grumbling Hive; or, Knaves Turn'd Honest, first published as a controversial moral allegory about a thriving bee society whose wealth, order, and power depend on fraud, vanity, luxury, ambition, and self-interest. When the ... Read more

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