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    The fables of pity: Rousseau, Mandeville and the animal-fable

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    Copyright @ 2012 Edinburgh University PressPrompted by Derrida’s work on the animal-fable in eighteenth-century debates about political power, this article examines the role played by the fiction of the animal in thinking of pity as either a natural virtue (in Rousseau’s Second Discourse) or as a natural passion (in Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees). The war of fables between Rousseau and Mandeville – and their hostile reception by Samuel Johnson and Adam Smith – reinforce that the animal-fable illustrates not so much the proper of man as the possibilities and limitations of a moral philosophy that is unable to address the political realities of the state

    Mill and Liberalism - 1

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    Kate Parker and Norbert Sclippa, editors. Sade's Sensibilities

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    Natural rights in the Scottish Enlightenment

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    Optimism, progress, and philosophical history

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