Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]
… the deeper and larger ambitions of the needy self. 1 The latter view was explored most thoroughly in English by Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733). Very much building on French traditions of moral psychology, this Dutch physician traced all (or … an impossibly demanding self: in his view, politeness was a kind of refined egoism. 2 However, a number of Englishmen, Mandeville’s exact contemporaries, sought to anchor politeness in real virtue. In their periodicals, the Tatler … Eighteenth-Century Studies (vol. 18, n° 2, 1984-1985, p. 186-214). 2 . E. J. Hundert, The Enlightenment’s Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). 3 . Michael G. Ketcham, …
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