Article ID: CBB319746918

Francis Hutcheson on Luxury and Intemperance: The Mandeville Threat (2015)

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This paper looks at two figures in the modern, European, eighteenth-century debate on luxury. It claims to better understand the differences between Francis Hutcheson and Bernard Mandeville by exploring how Hutcheson treated the topic of luxury as a distinction between two desires, thus differing from Mandeville's concept of luxury, and a concept of temperance based on moral sense. It explores why Hutcheson believed that luxury was a moral, social and political issue and particularly why he considered Mandeville the embodiment of a threat that went beyond simple considerations of the content of The Fable of the Bees to touch on reflections on the equilibrium of a social and political system. It aims to show how the psychological and the moral dimension were connected to Hutcheson's political theory and how luxury was one of the key points of this connection.

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Authors & Contributors
Tilley, John J.
Daniel Luban
Ana Luiza de França Sá
Victor Lino Bernardes
Luke O'Sullivan
Stafford, J. Martin
Concepts
Philosophy and politics
Moral philosophy
Psychology
Philosophy
Mind and body
Politics and government
Time Periods
18th century
20th century
Enlightenment
21st century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
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