Daniel Morgan

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Daniel Morgan is a second-year undergraduate studying History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where he is also an Academic Scholar and a Krasis Scholar. He is particularly interested in intellectual history and charting the deeper, less perceptible trends behind political and economic developments which shape wider society. His work has been published in reviews including the Oxford Business Review and the Oxford History Review, where he has also worked as a senior editor and columnist, the Broad Street Humanities Review, The Oxford Student and The Oxford Blue.

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Nov 22, 2022 ∙ 14 min

‘Private Vices, Publick Benefits’ in Permissive Democracies: Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees in the Context of Transgressions by Western Political Classes

Introduction The work of many 17th-18th century thinkers on politics and society continues to shape modern discourse, with notable contributions including Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651), John Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750). The renown enjoyed by a small number of thinkers should not, however, divert us from more obscure but equally significant works from the period. The Anglo-Dutch critic and satirist...