Name: La Fable Des Abeilles V1: Ou Les Fripons Devenus Honnetes Gens (1740) (in French)
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Author: Bernard Mandeville
ISBN: 9781166117191

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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

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 4.0 cm

Weight

1.09 kg.

ISBN13

9781166117191

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. Cette ��uvre est une fable qui raconte l'histoire d'une colonie d'abeilles qui, �� premi��re vue, semble ��tre une soci��t�� parfaite et vertueuse. Cependant, lorsque les abeilles commencent �� s'engager dans des activit��s ��go��stes et immorales, la soci��t�� commence �� se d��sint��grer.Mandeville utilise cette fable pour critiquer la moralit�� traditionnelle de son ��poque, affirmant que la cupidit�� et l'��go��sme sont des forces motrices importantes pour la prosp��rit�� et la croissance ��conomique. Il soutient que la recherche du profit personnel peut en fait conduire �� des avantages pour l'ensemble de la soci��t��.La Fable des Abeilles V1: Ou les Fripons Devenus Honn��tes Gens est consid��r��e comme une ��uvre importante dans le d��veloppement de la pens��e ��conomique et politique moderne. Elle a suscit�� de nombreux d��bats et controverses depuis sa publication en 1740, et reste aujourd'hui une lecture essentielle pour ceux qui s'int��ressent �� la philosophie morale et ��conomique.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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