The 'private vices, public benefits' controversy : the response of the Scottish Enlightenment to Bernard Mandeville

My dissertation deals with eighteenth-century Scottish moral philosophy, particularly its discussion of sociability. My dissertation draws attention to what I call the ‘private vices, public benefits’ controversy in Scottish social thought, and presents an aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment though...

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Main Author: Furuya, Hiroyuki
Published: University of Edinburgh 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.651169