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- catalog abstract "This collection of essays examines the importance of virtue, corruption, and self-interest in the contexts of different political and historic settings. The book spans historic time frames (from the Glorious Revolution through the American and French Revolutions to the present), contrasts cultures (England, British America, the United States, France, Spain and its Empire), and represents the efforts of scholars from analytically distinct disciplines (political science, political theory, philosophy, intellectual and social history). The idea for this volume developed from The Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Lehigh University. The Gipson Institute was established in 1972 as a memorial to the outstanding historian who was the recipient of the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for selected volumes in his British Empire Series. The chief aim of the Gipson Institute has been to promote an understanding of the eighteenth century from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Conceptions of virtue and corruption have been central in the study of politics and history since at least the time of Plato and Aristotle. But while these concepts can be seen as significant in the works of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, for instance, they are - beginning with Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees (1714) - thematic of the eighteenth century. Mandeville's assault on the feudal ethos and the morality of the traditional world is treated in a nonsatirical and systematic manner in Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). There, Smith argues that the unrestricted pursuit of individual self-interest would create a harmonious public order where the benefits of economic growth would trickle down to all members of civil society. Not until the middle of the next century do the ethics of market liberalism come under systematic attack - by Karl Marx, who in his critique of capitalism seeks a dialectical return to the organic community of feudalism as well as the unleashing of the potentialities of social individualism. In the hope of gaining new insights and fresh perspectives on this debate - and in the imperial spirit of Lawrence Gipson - the institute asked not only intellectual and social historians, but also political theorists and political scientists, to contribute to the volume. In addition, the institute asked scholars of the French and Spanish empires to think about virtue and corruption themes as they applied to their scholarly frames of reference.".
- catalog contributor b4920014.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "(cont.) Interpreting French revolutionary political culture / Michael E. Hobart -- Honest judges leave destitute heirs: the price of integrity in eighteenth-century Spain / Mark A. Burkholder -- Corruption, self-interest, and the political culture of eighteenth-century Quito / Kenneth J. Andrien -- Editor's epilogue: paradise lost or paradise found? virtue, corruption, and self-interest in Tocqueville's frontier / Richard K. Matthews".
- catalog description "Conceptions of virtue and corruption have been central in the study of politics and history since at least the time of Plato and Aristotle. But while these concepts can be seen as significant in the works of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, for instance, they are - beginning with Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees (1714) - thematic of the eighteenth century. Mandeville's assault on the feudal ethos and the morality of the traditional world is treated in a nonsatirical and systematic manner in Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). There, Smith argues that the unrestricted pursuit of individual self-interest would create a harmonious public order where the benefits of economic growth would trickle down to all members of civil society.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Not until the middle of the next century do the ethics of market liberalism come under systematic attack - by Karl Marx, who in his critique of capitalism seeks a dialectical return to the organic community of feudalism as well as the unleashing of the potentialities of social individualism. In the hope of gaining new insights and fresh perspectives on this debate - and in the imperial spirit of Lawrence Gipson - the institute asked not only intellectual and social historians, but also political theorists and political scientists, to contribute to the volume. In addition, the institute asked scholars of the French and Spanish empires to think about virtue and corruption themes as they applied to their scholarly frames of reference.".
- catalog description "The concept of virtue in late colonial British America / Jack P. Greene -- Corruption in eighteenth-century English and American political discourse / Isaac Kramnick -- The Franklin persona: the virtue of practicality and the practicality of virtue / Albert H. Wurth, Jr. -- Escaping perfidious Albion: federalism, fear of aristocracy, and the democratization of corruption in postrevolutionary America / John M. Murrin -- Capitalism, civic virtue, and democracy / Alan Ryan -- David Hume and James Madison on defining "the public interest" / Franklin A. Kalinowski -- Political virtue and the lessons of the French revolution: the view from the slaveholding South / Elizabeth Fox- Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese --".
- catalog description "The idea for this volume developed from The Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Lehigh University. The Gipson Institute was established in 1972 as a memorial to the outstanding historian who was the recipient of the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for selected volumes in his British Empire Series. The chief aim of the Gipson Institute has been to promote an understanding of the eighteenth century from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.".
- catalog description "This collection of essays examines the importance of virtue, corruption, and self-interest in the contexts of different political and historic settings. The book spans historic time frames (from the Glorious Revolution through the American and French Revolutions to the present), contrasts cultures (England, British America, the United States, France, Spain and its Empire), and represents the efforts of scholars from analytically distinct disciplines (political science, political theory, philosophy, intellectual and social history).".
- catalog extent "328 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Virtue, corruption, and self-interest.".
- catalog identifier "0934223262 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Virtue, corruption, and self-interest.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bethlehem Pa. : Lehigh University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Virtue, corruption, and self-interest.".
- catalog subject "320.9/033 20".
- catalog subject "Eighteenth century.".
- catalog subject "JA75.7 .V57 1994".
- catalog subject "Political culture History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) Interpreting French revolutionary political culture / Michael E. Hobart -- Honest judges leave destitute heirs: the price of integrity in eighteenth-century Spain / Mark A. Burkholder -- Corruption, self-interest, and the political culture of eighteenth-century Quito / Kenneth J. Andrien -- Editor's epilogue: paradise lost or paradise found? virtue, corruption, and self-interest in Tocqueville's frontier / Richard K. Matthews".
- catalog tableOfContents "The concept of virtue in late colonial British America / Jack P. Greene -- Corruption in eighteenth-century English and American political discourse / Isaac Kramnick -- The Franklin persona: the virtue of practicality and the practicality of virtue / Albert H. Wurth, Jr. -- Escaping perfidious Albion: federalism, fear of aristocracy, and the democratization of corruption in postrevolutionary America / John M. Murrin -- Capitalism, civic virtue, and democracy / Alan Ryan -- David Hume and James Madison on defining "the public interest" / Franklin A. Kalinowski -- Political virtue and the lessons of the French revolution: the view from the slaveholding South / Elizabeth Fox- Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese --".
- catalog title "Virtue, corruption, and self-interest : political values in the eighteenth century / edited by Richard K. Matthews.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".