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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