Question
Later editions of this book added an essay criticizing charity schools, which teach “frivolous” qualities for the poor. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this book that includes the commentary An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue. This book centers on a poem about a society that thrives when “full of vice” yet collapses when its members begin to act virtuously.
ANSWER: The Fable of the Bees (by Bernard Mandeville)
[10h] A man in this text likens a synchronized hive of bees to a multi-headed animal while considering how living beings can emerge from a network of tiny cells. This text mainly consists of discussions between a doctor and a young woman about a man’s transcribed statements.
ANSWER: d’Alembert’s Dream [or The Dream of d'Alembert; or Le Rêve de d'Alembert] (by Denis Diderot)
[10e] This philosopher analyzed why bees can live as a collective without coercive force yet humans cannot in the “Of Commonwealth” section of a book whose frontispiece shows a crowned man made of hundreds of smaller people.
ANSWER: Thomas Hobbes (The book is Leviathan.)
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