Name: La Fable Des Abeilles V1: Ou Les Fripons Devenus Honnetes Gens (1740) (in French)
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Author: Bernard Mandeville
ISBN: 9781166069360

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La Fable Des Abeilles V1: Ou Les Fripons Devenus Honnetes Gens (1740) (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bernard Mandeville

Publisher

Kessinger Publishing

Language

French

Pages

632

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm

Weight

0.83 kg.

ISBN13

9781166069360

Synopsis "La Fable Des Abeilles V1: Ou Les Fripons Devenus Honnetes Gens (1740) (in French)"

La Fable des Abeilles V1: ou Les Fripons Devenus Honn��tes Gens (1740) est un livre ��crit par Bernard Mandeville. Il s'agit d'une fable qui raconte l'histoire des abeilles qui, malgr�� leur apparence de travailleurs honn��tes, sont en r��alit�� des fripons qui ne pensent qu'�� leur propre int��r��t. Le livre explore les th��mes de la moralit��, de la vertu et de la corruption dans la soci��t��. Mandeville utilise les abeilles comme une m��taphore pour critiquer la soci��t�� de son temps et pour souligner les probl��mes de la cupidit�� et de l'��go��sme. La Fable des Abeilles V1 est consid��r��e comme une ��uvre importante de la litt��rature politique et ��conomique du XVIIIe si��cle.This Book Is In French.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Bernard Mandeville

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Bernard Mandeville (Rotterdam, November 15, 1670 – Hackney, January 21, 1733) was an influential Anglo-Dutch thinker: physician, satirist, moral philosopher, and proto-economist. He earned his medical degree in Leiden in 1691 and moved to England shortly thereafter, where he practiced as a specialist in nervous and digestive diseases, and became highly esteemed socially.

His most famous work, The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits (1714), includes the original poem The Grumbling Hive (1705) accompanied by philosophical essays on moral virtue, benevolence, and hypotheses of society.
In this satire, Mandeville presents the paradox: private vices—such as luxury, vanity, or lust—generate social benefits by boosting consumption and employment, while austere virtue detracts from wealth and economic dynamism.

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