"I do not intend to pitch my claim on behalf of Mandeville higher than to say that he made Hume possible. It is indeed my estimate of Hume as perhaps the greatest of all modern students of mind and society which makes Mandeville appear to me so important. It is only in Hume's work that the significance of Mandeville's efforts becomes wholly clear, and it was through Hume that he exercised his most lasting influence. Yet to have given Hume some of his leading conceptions seems to me sufficient title for Mandeville to qualify as a master mind."
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Friedrich Hayek, 'Dr Bernard Mandeville' (23 March 1966), in New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas (1978), p. 264
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Bernard Mandeville
1670 – 1733
niederländischer Arzt und Sozialtheoretiker
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