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Virtues and Vices – Ritchie Robertson: Can Private Vices be Public Benefits?

Why does the baker go up early in the morning to start baking bread if it’s not altruism? Is there truth to Mandeville’s famous quote that private vices are public benefits? Will, as Kant believed, a good political system work for a nation of devils, provided the devils understand their own interests? Ritchie Robertson walks us through the Enlightenment ideas relating to virtue and vice.