The Fable of the Bees


Read by Matthew Muñoz

(5 stars; 6 reviews)

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

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Part I, Preface 12:39 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part I, The Grumbling Hive: or Knaves turn’d Honest 18:54 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part I, The Introduction 1:39 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part I, An Inquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue 23:54 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part I, Remarks, Line 45 5:31 Read by Matthew Muñoz
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Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 1 42:19 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 2 29:54 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 3 27:28 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part I, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, Section 4 30:16 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part I, A Search into the Nature of Society, Section 1 46:15 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part I, A Search into the Nature of Society, Section 2 40:11 Read by Matthew Muñoz
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—— 48:07 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, Preface 43:27 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The First Dialogue, Section 1 25:52 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The First Dialogue, Section 2 30:46 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Second Dialogue, Section 1 35:25 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Second Dialogue, Section 2 34:22 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Third Dialogue, Section 1 46:37 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Third Dialogue, Section 2 41:06 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Fourth Dialogue, Section 1 38:26 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Fourth Dialogue, Section 2 45:31 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 1 43:11 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 2 42:55 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Fifth Dialogue, Section 3 43:55 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 1 44:56 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 2 45:14 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 3 41:37 Read by Matthew Muñoz
Part II, The Sixth Dialogue, Section 4 38:09 Read by Matthew Muñoz

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Bees are Philosophical


(5 stars)

sounds like he needs a tums but great book