The 'private vices, public benefits' controversy : the response of the Scottish Enlightenment to Bernard Mandeville
My dissertation deals with eighteenth-century Scottish moral philosophy, particularly its discussion of sociability. My dissertation draws attention to what I call the ‘private vices, public benefits’ controversy in Scottish social thought, and presents an aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment though...
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University of Edinburgh
2003
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.651169 |