Mandeville and Hume: anatomists of civil society
by The Voltaire Foundation, Tolonen, Mikko
fromSVEC
by The Voltaire Foundation, Tolonen, Mikko
fromSVEC
The Fable of the bees and the Treatise of human nature were written to define and dissect the essential components of a 'civil society.' How have early readings of the Fable skewed our understanding of the work and its author? To what extent did Mandeville's celebrated work infl…