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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2021.
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| Series: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.