Bernard Mandeville Bücher

1724 erschien in London eine Streitschrift für öffentliche Freudenhäuser, die sofort europaweiten Erfolg hatte. Verbreitet wurde sie im Untergrund und nur wenige wussten, dass ihr Autor kein anderer war als Bernard Mandeville, einer der bestgehassten Vertreter der europäischen Aufklärung. Mit Witz und psychologischem Scharfsinn berichtet er über die verschlungenen Beziehungen der Geschlechter und über die öffentlichen und privaten Wege der Lüste. Jetzt endlich auf Deutsch.

Bernard Mandevilles in der Bienenfabel formulierte scharfsichtige Analyse der Gesellschaft seiner Zeit, vor allem die darin vertretene Auffassung vom Wesen der Ethik - private Laster, öffentliche Vorteile -, und der Essay über die Armenschulen lösten noch unter seinen Zeitgenossen eine lebhafte Diskussion aus. Wie viele Philosophen des beginnenden bürgerlichen Zeitalters war Mandeville davon überzeugt, daß am Anfang allen Philosophierens über gesellschaftliche Zustände die Erforschung der menschlichen Natur »so, wie sie in Wirklichkeit ist, nicht, wie sie sein sollte«, stehen müsse.

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Mandeville is the wittiest and shrewdest philosopher ever to make a significant impact upon economics. He anticipated Oscar Wilde in choosing his enemies with great care, and within his own century they included David Hume, Adam Smith, and Francis Hutcheson. He could afford even such enemies because his friends and admirers have been legion. — George J. Stigler, University of Chicago It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733). He was a great satirist and came to have a profound impact on economics, ethics, and social philosophy. The Fable begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues. It is all tied together by the startling and original idea that "private vices" (self-interest) lead to "publick benefits" (the development and operation of society). From that simple beginning, Mandeville saw that orderly social structures (such as law, language, the market, and even the growth of knowledge) were a spontaneous growth developing out of individual human actions.

Mandeville is the wittiest and shrewdest philosopher ever to make a significant impact upon economics. He anticipated Oscar Wilde in choosing his enemies with great care, and within his own century they included David Hume, Adam Smith, and Francis Hutcheson. He could afford even such enemies because his friends and admirers have been legion. — George J. Stigler, University of Chicago It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733). He was a great satirist and came to have a profound impact on economics, ethics, and social philosophy. The Fable begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues. It is all tied together by the startling and original idea that "private vices" (self-interest) lead to "publick benefits" (the development and operation of society). From that simple beginning, Mandeville saw that orderly social structures (such as law, language, the market, and even the growth of knowledge) were a spontaneous growth developing out of individual human actions.

Původně dvacetistránková báseň (1705) byla rozšířena o dvacet Poznámek, z nichž mnohé dosahují desítek stránek, (1714) a konečně doplněna dvěma eseji (1723).