The Fable of the Bees - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This book’s first part features an “Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue” immediately followed by a section outlining 20 “Remarks.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this “philosophical poem” that describes the title creatures thriving when acting selfishly but beginning to collapse when acting virtuously.

ANSWER: The Fable of the Bees [or The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits] (by Bernard Mandeville)

[10e] This philosopher criticized The Fable of the Bees for ignoring the existence of social virtues. This Swiss philosopher describes the self-interests of citizens forming a “general will” in The Social Contract.

ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[10m] Rousseau discusses The Fable of the Bees in a book partially titled for the “Origin and Basis” of this concept. That book titled for this concept contrasts amour de soi with amour-propre and claims that civil society was founded by the first man to enclose a piece of land and claim “this is mine!”

ANSWER: inequality [accept Discourse on Inequality or Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Canada	Main	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	9.17	92%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	7.14	71%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	13.00	100%	20%	10%
North	Main	Y	11	12.73	91%	27%	9%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	9.17	92%	0%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%

Data


UCSC	Berkeley F	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley E	Berkeley D	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
Claremont Pitzer	UCLA C	0	10	0	10
UCI	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	0	0	0
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSB	0	10	10	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	USC	0	10	0	10
Claremont Scripps	UCLA D	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
Guelph A	Carleton	0	10	0	10
McGill B	McMaster C	0	10	0	10
Toronto H	McGill C	0	10	0	10
McMaster A	Queen's A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Toronto A	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Guelph B	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	Toronto J	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Toronto I	Western Ontario	0	10	0	10
McMaster B	Toronto K	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	Queen's B	0	0	0	0
UF E	FIU	0	0	0	0
Melbourne B	ERAU A	0	0	0	0
Melbourne A	ERAU B	0	10	0	10
UF B	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF A	UCF A	0	10	0	10
UF D	USF	0	10	0	10
CWRU D	CWRU C	0	10	0	10
MSU A	OSU D	0	10	0	10
MSU B	Pitt C	0	10	0	10
OSU A	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
OSU B	OSU C	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Pitt A	0	10	0	10
Pitt B	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
UF C	FSU	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
James Madison	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
Liberty B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Roanoke	Tusculum	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	North Carolina C	0	10	0	10
NC State	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	Virginia B	0	10	0	10
Catholic University	Notre Dame E	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	UMBC A	0	10	10	20
George Washington B	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown B	Maryland D	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins C	George Mason C	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	VCU A	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	NYU A	0	10	0	10
NYU B	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Rutgers C	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	Columbia B	0	0	0	0
Princeton A	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Rowan A	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore A	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin	Macalester B	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Macalester A	0	10	0	10
Nebraska	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
St. Thomas	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	WashU C	0	10	0	10
SIUE	WashU D	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
William Woods	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Amherst A	Dartmouth	0	10	0	10
Brown B	BC A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	BC B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	BU	0	10	0	10
Amherst B	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	Brandeis Wilson	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Cornell-UG	0	0	0	0
MIT B	Brown C	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Yale A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Orlando	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Williams	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
British Columbia B	Washington A	0	10	10	20
British Columbia D	Alberta	10	10	10	30
Simon Fraser	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
British Columbia C	Washington B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	McGill D	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	UTD B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Northwestern C	0	10	0	10
Ohio	Texas B	0	10	10	20
UTD A	Tulsa	0	10	10	20
UCO	Rose State	0	10	0	10
RIT B	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Arizona State A	Alberta B	0	10	10	20
Arizona State B	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Cornell-DII	RIT A	0	10	0	10
ESF	Syracuse	0	0	0	0