Mandeville and Darwinism

"In what way did Mandeville lay the foundation for Darwinism?"


Particular views of Mandeville's lie in the idea of spontaneous order. Hayek defines this spontaneous order in this sentence.

"Society is the product of human action, not human design."

Darwin seems to have applied this aspect to biology. Him doing so resulted in the springing forth from 18th-century Scottish social philosophy (according to Hayek). This keeps on falling back to Mandeville.

 Mandeville wrote his Fable of the Bees, and him doing so resulted in it being read and it being used continually over the years to back up different economic (or in Darwins's case, biological) principles. ("...human action, not human design.")

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