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Bernard Mandeville
Overview
Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville (; 15 November 1670 – 21 January 1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist, satirist, writer and physician. Born in 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.
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Some popular ascetic doctrines which had been current before his time, and which placed virtue in the entire extirpation and annihilation of all our passions, were the real foundation of this licentious system. It was easy for Dr. Mandeville to prove, first, that this entire conquest never actually took place among men; and secondly, that if it was to take place universally, it would be pernicious to society, by…
Adam Smith, The Essays of Adam Smith
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The bees have, in all ages, furnished the poet with descriptions, comparisons, allegories, and fables. Mandeville's celebrated "Fable of the Bees" made a great noise in England. Here is a short sketch of it: Once the bees, in worldly things, Had a happy government; And their laborers and their kings Made them wealthy and content; But some greedy drones at last Found their way into their hive;…
Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02
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Footnote 20: Luxury and lust. It is the great fallacy of Dr. Mandeville’s book[21] to represent every passion as wholly vicious, which is so in any degree and in any direction. It is thus that he treats every thing as vanity which has any reference, either to what are, or to what ought to be the sentiments of others: and it is by means of this sophistry, that he establishes his favourite…
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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Philosophers who discussed Bernard Mandeville
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- Conscience
- Hypocrisy
- Influenza
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- Sovereign state
- Rotterdam
- Thomas Hobbes
- Morality
- Human nature
- Virtue
- Jurist
- Dutch Republic
- Rationality
- A priori and a posteriori
Place in the tradition
Part of British philosophy.