[October 3 + 5] Individuals and sentiments
Section outline
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Text 3: Bernard Mandeville, "The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turned Honest," The Fable of the bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1714/1729), 1-12.
See the Gutenberg Project's OCR of a later edition; Jonathan Bennett's annotated version is available in convenient PDF. [some Dutch translation] [French translation] [German translation] [Hungarian translation] [partial Russian translation] [opening passages in Italian] [opening passages in Polish]
Context 3: Society is composed of self-interested individuals; against moralizing nature; mechanical vs organic metaphors
Assigned reading: keep reading Mandeville as he provides commentary on his own text: "An enquiry into the origin of moral virtue," 15-27; "(D.) For there was not a Bee," 49-50; "(G.) The worst of all the multitude," 54-62. Within a two-hour overall time budget, make a start on "A search into the nature of society" as well.