Denis Diderot's ideas about war and peace crystalize many of the contradictions in the world that he identified. On the one hand, war is a natural product of contradictions between natural law and human developments. On the other hand, it can and should always be subject to moral judgment based on a wide-ranging knowledge of history and context. War can be good if it eliminates 1 (wmann001@ucr.edu). Profesora del Department of Political Science (University of California, Riverside). Entre sus publicaciones más recientes cabe destacar: "Skepticism and
wrote important articles on him, generating a Mandeville revival, especially since the 1920's. 2 The critical edition of The Fable of the Bees edited by Kaye and first published in 1924 remains a landmark of the initial phase of this revival. 3 In the second half of the twentieth century Mandeville's work and theories became the focus of special attention from economists and sociologists who proposed him as a forerunner of conceptions only developed much later. 4 1 For a concise and well-informed account of Mandeville's reception, with updated bibliography, see M.
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