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Bernard de Mandeville’s Tropology of Paradoxes Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy

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Full Title

Bernard de Mandeville\'s Tropology of Paradoxes Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy

Author(s)

Edmundo Balsemão Pires

Edition
ISBN

9783319193816, 9783319193809

Publisher

Springer

Format

PDF and EPUB

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This book integrates studies on the thought of Bernard de Mandeville and other philosophers and historians of Modern Thought. The chapters reflect a rethinking of Mandeville’s legacy and, together, present a comprehensive approach to Mandeville’s work. The book is published on the occasion of the 300 years that have passed since the publication of the Fable of the Bees. Bernard de Mandeville disassembled the dichotomies of traditional moral thinking to show that the outcomes of the social action emerge as new, non-intentional effects from the combination of moral opposites, vice and virtue, in such a form that they lose their moral significance. The work of this great writer, philosopher and physician is interwoven with an awareness of the paradoxical nature of modern society and the challenges that this recognition brings to an adequate perspective on the historical world of modernity.