Fable of the Bees

by Bernard Mandeville

48 chapters21h 27mEnglish1806

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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. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz

Chapters (47)

1Part I, The Grumbling Hive: or Knaves turn’d Honest

1134

2Part I, The Introduction

3Part I, An Inquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue

1434

4Part I, Remarks, Line 45

331

5Part I, Remarks, Line 55

240

6Part I, Remarks, Line 101

1768

7Part I, Remarks, Line 125

118

8Part I, Remarks, Line 128

340

9Part I, Remarks, Line 163

109

10Part I, Remarks, Line 167

842

11Part I, Remarks, Line 173

541

12Part I, Remarks, Line 177

274

13Part I, Remarks, Line 180

1736

14Part I, Remarks, Line 182

1114

15Part I, Remarks, Line 183

1358

16Part I, Remarks, Line 200

2050

17Part I, Remarks, Line 201

1304

18Part I, Remarks, Line 307

1596

19Part I, Remarks, Line 321

2575

20Part I, Remarks, Line 353

173

21Part I, Remarks, Line 367

1546

22Part I, Remarks, Line 388

726

23Part I, Remarks, Line 410

215

24Part I, Remarks, Line 411

496

25Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 1

2539

26Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 2

1794

27Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 3

1648

28Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 4

1816

29Part I, A Search into the Nature of Society, Section 1

2775

30Part I, A Search into the Nature of Society, Section 2

2411

31Part 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——

2887

32Part II, Preface

2607

33Part II, The First Dialogue, Section 1

1552

34Part II, The First Dialogue, Section 2

1846

35Part II, The Second Dialogue, Section 1

2125

36Part II, The Second Dialogue, Section 2

2062

37Part II, The Third Dialogue, Section 1

2797

38Part II, The Third Dialogue, Section 2

2466

39Part II, The Fourth Dialogue, Section 1

2306

40Part II, The Fourth Dialogue, Section 2

2731

41Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 1

2591

42Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 2

2575

43Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 3

2635

44Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 1

2696

45Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 2

2714

46Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 3

2497

47Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 4

2289

Fable of the Bees

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