Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness
London 1729. Reprint.
English
1970
468 p., 14,4 x 19,1 cm.
Cloth-bound
ISBN 978-3-7728-0214-0
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It was in part due to Mandeville (1670–1733) that fundamental prerequisites of Hobbes‘s political philosophy achieved a breakthrough. He gave priority to the social function of egotism, thus linking the foundations of morality to factors of social and political reality.