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The Fable of the Bees

Bernard Mandeville (1670 - 1733)

Bernard Mandeville's didactic poem praising the virtues that personal vices bestow on society as a whole, along with several treatises and dialogues explaining and defending it. Mandeville's theories were influential in the development of both the moral philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the methodology of modern economics. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz

Genre(s): Single author, Political Science

Language: English

Keyword(s): politics (205), economics (54), ethics (52), vice (12)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Part I, Preface	Matthew Muñoz	00:12:39
Play 01	Part I, The Grumbling Hive: or Knaves turn’d Honest	Matthew Muñoz	00:18:54
Play 02	Part I, The Introduction	Matthew Muñoz	00:01:39
Play 03	Part I, An Inquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue	Matthew Muñoz	00:23:54
Play 04	Part I, Remarks, Line 45	Matthew Muñoz	00:05:31
Play 05	Part I, Remarks, Line 55	Matthew Muñoz	00:04:00
Play 06	Part I, Remarks, Line 101	Matthew Muñoz	00:29:28
Play 07	Part I, Remarks, Line 125	Matthew Muñoz	00:01:58
Play 08	Part I, Remarks, Line 128	Matthew Muñoz	00:05:40
Play 09	Part I, Remarks, Line 163	Matthew Muñoz	00:01:49
Play 10	Part I, Remarks, Line 167	Matthew Muñoz	00:14:02
Play 11	Part I, Remarks, Line 173	Matthew Muñoz	00:09:01
Play 12	Part I, Remarks, Line 177	Matthew Muñoz	00:04:34
Play 13	Part I, Remarks, Line 180	Matthew Muñoz	00:28:56
Play 14	Part I, Remarks, Line 182	Matthew Muñoz	00:18:34
Play 15	Part I, Remarks, Line 183	Matthew Muñoz	00:22:38
Play 16	Part I, Remarks, Line 200	Matthew Muñoz	00:34:10
Play 17	Part I, Remarks, Line 201	Matthew Muñoz	00:21:44
Play 18	Part I, Remarks, Line 307	Matthew Muñoz	00:26:36
Play 19	Part I, Remarks, Line 321	Matthew Muñoz	00:42:55
Play 20	Part I, Remarks, Line 353	Matthew Muñoz	00:02:53
Play 21	Part I, Remarks, Line 367	Matthew Muñoz	00:25:46
Play 22	Part I, Remarks, Line 388	Matthew Muñoz	00:12:06
Play 23	Part I, Remarks, Line 410	Matthew Muñoz	00:03:35
Play 24	Part I, Remarks, Line 411	Matthew Muñoz	00:08:16
Play 25	Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 1	Matthew Muñoz	00:42:19
Play 26	Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 2	Matthew Muñoz	00:29:54
Play 27	Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 3	Matthew Muñoz	00:27:28
Play 28	Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 4	Matthew Muñoz	00:30:16
Play 29	Part I, A Search into the Nature of Society, Section 1	Matthew Muñoz	00:46:15
Play 30	Part I, A Search into the Nature of Society, Section 2	Matthew Muñoz	00:40:11
Play 31	Part I, A Vindication of the Book, from the Aspersions contained in a Presentment of the Grand Jury of Middlesex, and an Abusive Letter to Lord C——	Matthew Muñoz	00:48:07
Play 32	Part II, Preface	Matthew Muñoz	00:43:27
Play 33	Part II, The First Dialogue, Section 1	Matthew Muñoz	00:25:52
Play 34	Part II, The First Dialogue, Section 2	Matthew Muñoz	00:30:46
Play 35	Part II, The Second Dialogue, Section 1	Matthew Muñoz	00:35:25
Play 36	Part II, The Second Dialogue, Section 2	Matthew Muñoz	00:34:22
Play 37	Part II, The Third Dialogue, Section 1	Matthew Muñoz	00:46:37
Play 38	Part II, The Third Dialogue, Section 2	Matthew Muñoz	00:41:06
Play 39	Part II, The Fourth Dialogue, Section 1	Matthew Muñoz	00:38:26
Play 40	Part II, The Fourth Dialogue, Section 2	Matthew Muñoz	00:45:31
Play 41	Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 1	Matthew Muñoz	00:43:11
Play 42	Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 2	Matthew Muñoz	00:42:55
Play 43	Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 3	Matthew Muñoz	00:43:55
Play 44	Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 1	Matthew Muñoz	00:44:56
Play 45	Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 2	Matthew Muñoz	00:45:14
Play 46	Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 3	Matthew Muñoz	00:41:37
Play 47	Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 4	Matthew Muñoz	00:38:09

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