Mandeville and Hume anatomists of civil society

Abstract

1. Introduction: Sociability and sceptical sentimentalism 2. Intellectual change in Bernard Mandeville i. Hobbism in The Fable of the bees ii. The critique of Hobbism in the 1720s ii. Part II and the history of civil society 3. The publishing history of The Fable of the bees i. Mandeville's publishers and the question of copyright ownership ii. Jacob Tonson the younger and The Fable of the bees iii. Part II and Origin of honour 4. Social theory in A Treatise of human nature i. Hutchesonian leanings and anatomy of morals ii. Hume's distance from The Fable of the bees and his attachment to Mandeville iii. Self-love and justice iv. Self-liking and politeness v. Government and political sociability 5. Epilogue Bibliography Index

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