This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable’s two volumes, a selection from Mandeville’s An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville’s most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert’s Introduction places Mandeville in a number of eighteenth-century debates—particularly that of the nature and morality of commercial modernity—and underscores the degree to which his work stood as a central problem, not only for his immediate English contemporaries, but for such philosophers as Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. The selections are substantive enough to faithfully represent Mandeville the social theorist, and compact enough to be used in courses that can afford to spend no more than a week on his work.
“Hundert is especially good at demonstrating how vital Mandeville’s ideas are as a major foundation for more famous Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau, Diderot, Voltaire and others. . . . The additions of Nicole and Bayle will be useful in courses on 18th century ethics and morals, and in general surveys of Enlightenment thought. This is probably the best one-volume edition of the main works of Mandeville now available.”
—Irwin Primer, Rutgers University
“An excellent edition of a much needed text. E. J.. Hundert’s addition of clear biographies, a coherent introduction, an appendix, and suggested readings adds to the book’s evident value in graduate and undergraduate teaching. Hundert has done an admirable job of contextualizing Mandeville’s Fable in the philosophical debates of human morality and sociability that were crucial to the development of liberalism. There can be no better and affordable introduction to the sources for students than Hundert’s new edition of this classic.”
—Fabio Lopez-Lazari, Arizona State University
E. J. Hundert is Professor of History, the University of British Columbia.
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B. 曼德维尔最重要的作品《蜜蜂的寓言》副标题为“私人的恶德，公众的利益”，相比全书犀利的言辞，这个著名的“曼德维尔悖论”显得和缓很多。这句精炼的格言或许在发表当日引起轩然大波，但在今天，熟悉市场经济的现代人，只要不是卫道士，就可以毫不费力地承认这句话，个体的...
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评分网上到处都缺货，无奈之下只好看电子版了！ 私人的利益与“公共利益”之间并非是非此即彼而可以是和谐的（至少从总体上和长远地来说），私人追求个人私益可由“看不见的手”导向服务于其他人的利益，只要是不“损人”的“利已”最终也会“利人”的。两百多年前曼德维尔和亚当...
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评分与旧版相比，最大的变化是当前这个版本更为完整了，此前没有译出的内容在这一版中都给补上了。不过Kaye的长篇导言和详尽的注释还是没有译出，当然译者在译序中也说明了这么做的理由，是否恰当实属见仁见智。不过书中大部分重要的译注仍取自Kaye的注释，窃以为标为“译注”不是...
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so evil yet so true. maybe that's why Bacon said he always liked bees because they not only acquire but also collaborate and contribute. I tend to perceive it philosophically yet abstractly(Hegel or Darwin), however, I have to say it's less offensing when valued in the economics way of thinking and justifying.[Mar 18th @ Brown Science lib, e-Book obtained from GG public domain]
评分so evil yet so true. maybe that's why Bacon said he always liked bees because they not only acquire but also collaborate and contribute. I tend to perceive it philosophically yet abstractly(Hegel or Darwin), however, I have to say it's less offensing when valued in the economics way of thinking and justifying.[Mar 18th @ Brown Science lib, e-Book obtained from GG public domain]
评分so evil yet so true. maybe that's why Bacon said he always liked bees because they not only acquire but also collaborate and contribute. I tend to perceive it philosophically yet abstractly(Hegel or Darwin), however, I have to say it's less offensing when valued in the economics way of thinking and justifying.[Mar 18th @ Brown Science lib, e-Book obtained from GG public domain]
评分so evil yet so true. maybe that's why Bacon said he always liked bees because they not only acquire but also collaborate and contribute. I tend to perceive it philosophically yet abstractly(Hegel or Darwin), however, I have to say it's less offensing when valued in the economics way of thinking and justifying.[Mar 18th @ Brown Science lib, e-Book obtained from GG public domain]
评分Master of irony - if he intended it
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