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The Enlightenment’s ‘Fable’ examines the challenge offered to traditional morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous maxim ‘private vices, public benefits’ profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, and whose Fable of the Bees influenced Hume, Rousseau, Kant, and Adam Smith.Hundert, E. J. is the author of 'Enlightenment's Fable Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society' with ISBN 9780521460828 and ISBN 0521460824.
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