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Virtues and Christian Virtues, Vices and Gross Vices: Some Accusations Against Bernard Mandeville Reconsidered

Virtues and Christian Virtues, Vices and Gross Vices: Some Accusations Against Bernard Mandeville... D e c e m b e r 2005 35 VIRTUES AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUES, VICES AND GROSS VICES: SOME ACCUSATIONS AGAINST BERNARD MANDEVILLE RECONSIDERED F or close to th ree centuries, th e re has b e e n controversy ab o u t the m oral stance o f B ernard Mandeville, a D utch physician who setded in England late in the seventeenth century. In 1705, he published The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves Turn ’d Honest, a p o em th a t tells how a large society o f bees enjoys riches, luxury, knowl­ edge, a n d military pow er as long as it is pop u lated by such vicious characters as cheating workers a n d en tre p ren eu rs, evil lawyers, hypocritical doctors, c o rru p t ju d g e s an d clergy guilty o f “Sloth, Lust, Avarice an d Pride.”1 However, a successful cam paign against the vices reduces it to a small g ro u p who en d u re a S partan exis­ tence in p o o re r quarters, having exchanged th e ir h a rd w on opu­ http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png English Language Notes Duke University Press

Virtues and Christian Virtues, Vices and Gross Vices: Some Accusations Against Bernard Mandeville Reconsidered

Summerfield, Henry
English Language Notes , Volume 43 (2) – Dec 1, 2005
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D e c e m b e r 2005 35 VIRTUES AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUES, VICES AND GROSS VICES: SOME ACCUSATIONS AGAINST BERNARD MANDEVILLE RECONSIDERED F or close to th ree centuries, th e re has b e e n controversy ab o u t the m oral stance o f B ernard Mandeville, a D utch physician who setded in England late in the seventeenth century. In 1705, he published The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves Turn ’d Honest, a p o em th a t tells how a large society o f bees enjoys riches, luxury, knowl­ edge, a n d military pow er as long as it is pop u lated by such vicious characters as cheating workers a n d en tre p ren eu rs, evil lawyers, hypocritical doctors, c o rru p t ju d g e s an d clergy guilty o f “Sloth, Lust, Avarice an d Pride.”1 However, a successful cam paign against the vices reduces it to a small g ro u p who en d u re a S partan exis­ tence in p o o re r quarters, having exchanged th e ir h a rd w on opu­

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