Introduction. Chastity and courage -- Bernard Mandeville's anatomy of honour -- Prologue: Rotterdam, Leyden and London -- Mandeville's continental background -- Mandeville's female voices. The century of sex -- The virgin unmask'd -- Female education: "What girls should do with …
"In Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour, Andrea Branchi offers a reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker's philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour. Through an examinatio…
"In Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour, Andrea Branchi offers a reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker's philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour. Through an examinatio…
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…
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…
