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Debate: Beauty and Virtue

Francis Hutcheson entered a controversy among moral philosophers over whether or not human nature was primarily "benevolent" or "selfish". The former position was taken by the Earl of Shaftesbury in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times; the latter position by Bernard Mandeville in The Fable of the Bees which was provocatively subtitled "or Private Vices, Publick Benefits." Hutcheson took Shaftesbury’s side against Mandeville in this debate.

8 Titles in this Group:

authors and editors ↑ title   pub. date  
author: Francis Hutcheson, editor: Wolfgang Leidhold An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue 1726
author: Bernard Mandeville, introduction: Frederick Benjamin Kaye The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, 2 vols. 1732
author: Bernard Mandeville, introduction: Frederick Benjamin Kaye The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, Vol. 1 1732
author: Bernard Mandeville, introduction: Frederick Benjamin Kaye The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, Vol. 2 1732
author: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, foreword: Douglas Den Uyl Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 3 vols. 1737
author: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, foreword: Douglas Den Uyl Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 1 1737
author: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, foreword: Douglas Den Uyl Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 2 1737
author: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, foreword: Douglas Den Uyl Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 3 1737