La fable des abeilles; Tome 2

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La Fable Des Abeilles

La Fable Des Abeilles, Volume 4

Traduite ici pour la première fois en vers, accompagnée d'un texte en prose, la " Fable des abeilles " réserve bien des surprises. " Mandeville a renouvelé les fondements de l'activité économique. Le bien-être découle du gaspillage, de la rivalité. Cessons de croire à un quelconque altruisme ! ", écrit François Dagognet dans sa préface. Vision
cynique, lucide ou pathétique de l'homme, la question reste ouverte et plus actuelle que jamais.

La Ruche bourdonnante ou les crapules virées honnêtes

Plus grande est la variété des commerces et des manufactures, plus ils exigent de travail, et plus ils sont divisés en de nombreuses branches, plus nombreux seront ceux qui peuvent être contenus dans une société sans se gêner les uns les autres, et plus facilement ils pourront devenir un peuple riche, puissant et prospère. Il y a peu de vertus qui donnent du travail, aussi peuvent-elles rendre une petite nation vertueuse, mais elles ne sauraient en faire une grande. Etre fort et laborieux, patient dans les difficultés et assidu à toutes ses affaires, ce sont des qualités louables; mais comme elles font elles-mêmes leur travail, de même elles sont à elles-mêmes leur récompense, et ni l'art ni l'industrie ne leur ont jamais eu d'obligation, tandis que l'excellence de la pensée et de l'invention humaines n'ont jamais été et ne sont encore nulle part plus éclatantes que dans la variété des outils et des instruments dont se servent les ouvriers et les artisans et dans la multiplicité des machines qui ont été inventées soit pour prêter assistance à la faiblesse de l'homme, remédier à ses nombreuses imperfections, flatter sa paresse, soit pour prévenir son impatience.

RECHERCHE SUR LA NATURE DE LA SOCIETE. - Addition à la seconde édition (1723) de "La fable des abeilles"

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.

La fable des abeilles; Tome 1

Laws and government are to the political bodies of civil societies, what the vital spirits and life itself are to the natural bodies of animated creatures; and as those that study the anatomy of dead carcases may see, that the chief organs and nicest springs more immediately required to continue the motion of our machine, are not hard bones, strong muscles and nerves, nor the smooth white skin, that so beautifully covers them, but small trifling films, and little pipes, that are either overlooked or else seem inconsiderable to vulgar eyes; so they that examine into the nature of man, abstract from art and education, may observe, that what renders him a sociable animal, consists not in his desire of company, good nature, pity, affability, and other graces of a fair outside; but that his vilest and most hateful qualities are the most necessary accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the world, the happiest and most flourishing societies.

La fable des abeilles; Tome 2

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