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All the social theories analyzed above, to which (as Smith had already recognized) the theory of Mandeville can be added (Letter, 250), have in common the view that civil society is composed of independent individuals who enter into relations in contract form and only for their own advantage.
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Freudenthal, G. (1986). Civil Society and the Analytic-Synthetic Method. In: Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 88. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4500-5_13
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