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Bernard Mandeville's didactic poem praising the virtues that personal vices bestow on society as a whole, along with several treatises and dialogues explaining and defending it. Mandeville's theories were influential in the development of both the moral philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the methodology of modern economics.
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- Part I, Preface
- Part I, The Grumbling Hive: or Knaves turn’d Honest
- Part I, The Introduction
- Part I, An Inquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue
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- Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 1
- Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 2
- Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 3
- Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 4
- Part I, A Search into the Nature of Society, Section 1
- Part I, A Search into the Nature of Society, Section 2
- Part I, A Vindication of the Book, from the Aspersions contained in a Presentment of the Grand Jury of Middlesex, and an Abusive Letter to Lord C——
- Part II, Preface
- Part II, The First Dialogue, Section 1
- Part II, The First Dialogue, Section 2
- Part II, The Second Dialogue, Section 1
- Part II, The Second Dialogue, Section 2
- Part II, The Third Dialogue, Section 1
- Part II, The Third Dialogue, Section 2
- Part II, The Fourth Dialogue, Section 1
- Part II, The Fourth Dialogue, Section 2
- Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 1
- Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 2
- Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 3
- Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 1
- Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 2
- Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 3
- Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 4