Bernard Mandeville Analysis

Bernard Mandeville states every person is selfish. What motivates each person’s selfish behavior, in Mandeville 's ' view is self-love. Mandeville states, each person 's loves themselves and each person is only after their own self-interest. For this reason, Mandeville states and explains each persons’ contents of self-interest include as, A) in acquiring wealth and status, B) in enjoying life and not suffering, C) in upholding themselves to higher standard and 4) in seeking praise. As a result, Mandeville states what is morally good (virtue) or what is morally bad (vice) were first devised by politicians that desired to fulfill their own interest. So then, their desire were, are to rule other people, so everyone conducts his or her desire …show more content…
And in Mandeville’s view, these types of actions are usually by people who have hidden motives. In this case, person A has a medical procedure and the cost will be to expensive. Since person A has family and friends supporting him and person A is still unable to afford the medical procedure. Following that person A’s friends set up a ‘GoFundMe’ account. Everyone who has Facebook and a friend of person A donate money into the GoFundMe account. Since everyone cares of person A’s well being, they donate money anonymously. Person A, now is able to afford the medical procedure. Mandeville would have explained this type of phenomena in two ways. first humans are rational and “capable of performing the most noble achievements” and each person acted because they love themselves. Second, this phenomenon is a virtuous act and each person who helped the person in secret is …show more content…
This is, because Mandeville summarized, every human behavior as selfish and any selfish action that helps another human being is motivated simply to gain praise and honor. a person gives food and another person receives the food, then it would seem they both agreed to act in concert. In this case, it’s important to state, the person receiving food would at least get something to eat. To explain a persons’ action as to why he or she gave food, depends in many factors. Experience for one thing, would explain why a person gives another person something to eat or not. Each person has their own experience which influence their act. The second case involves a group of people we can observe at our local communities. In this case, a group of people that make up a local fire department. Since they each live, eat and work together, some friendship will develop over time. In my view, this type of friendship is dependent to trust. In other words, I trust you to do your job and I will do the same. In like manner to other jobs, these firemen and women probably never met each other before joining their department. In this case trust is earned. Here, building trust usually happens through a set of experiences. Because the job they are tasked with is dangerous. And each member of the department is valued. As a result of trust and