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Pride, Manners, and Morals Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour.

"In Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour, Andrea Branchi offers a reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker's philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour. Through an examination of M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Branchi, Andrea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2021.
Colección:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Chastity and courage
  • Bernard Mandeville's anatomy of honour
  • Prologue: Rotterdam, Leyden and London
  • Mandeville's continental background
  • Mandeville's female voices. The century of sex
  • The virgin unmask'd
  • Female education: "What girls should do with Latin?"
  • The Oxford gentleman and Philopirio. Living dead and public benefactors
  • The duel of honour
  • Medicine and philosophy: the hypp'd nation
  • The political offspring of pride. Powerful persuasions
  • Men of fashion, bullies in morality
  • Natural and artificial courage
  • Politeness and virtue. Mandeville's rise to fame
  • Hypocrisy and self-deception
  • The ticklish foundation of female virtue
  • Cleomenes and Horatio. Portrait of a complete gentleman
  • Self-liking and the origin of politeness
  • A conjectural history of sociability
  • Modern honour and the cult of the self. Martial virtue
  • The history of pride
  • Mandeville's challenge.