Pope, Mandeville, and An Essay on Man
Defending Pope against Pierre-Jean de Crouzas' charge that "An Essay on Man" was damagingly heterodox, William Warburton openly admitted the influence of "The Fable of the Bees" on the poem, but argued that Pope had steered a course between the opposing systems of Mandeville...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Notes and queries 2014-09, Vol.61 (3), p.398-400 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Defending Pope against Pierre-Jean de Crouzas' charge that "An Essay on Man" was damagingly heterodox, William Warburton openly admitted the influence of "The Fable of the Bees" on the poem, but argued that Pope had steered a course between the opposing systems of Mandeville and Shaftesbury which avoided the irreligion common to them both. It is difficult to resist the impression that the contrast Pope draws between the sub-human domain of instinct which dictates "Laws wise as Nature, and as fix'd as Fate" and man's unsteady dispensations owes something to a digression on the immutability of the instinctual life that Mandeville deploys as a foil in the course of the best known of his viticultural comparisons. |
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ISSN: | 0029-3970 1471-6941 |
DOI: | 10.1093/notesj/gju093 |