I found section five of Hutcheson's An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, to be incredibly insightful. His ideas about human community are vastly different from those of Mandeville, and in my opinion are more agreeable as well. When comparing the ideas of Mandeville and Hutcheson it is very easy to dismiss Mandeville for being a cynic. While self-interest certainly drives many people it can by no means account for every action and the level of cooperation found within a community. For these reasons I consider Hutcheson's argument to be stronger. It makes more sense that if people had been designed to work together than obviously community would come about very easily. If every person operated solely out of self-interest then there would be no way for a functioning government or economy to be sustainable. People need to be able to see the big picture otherwise the government would have an unprecedented amount of corruption, and corporations would fall apart due to unruly employees or mismanagement. When everybody works only for themselves it leads to riotous behavior. Hypothetically, let us say that employees at a major corporation wanted more money for their efforts. However, management refused to give the employees a raise because it would cut into their bonuses. The employees would strike, so management would bring in strikebreakers. With enough momentum, the employees would ask the government to provide them with protection from such tactics. This would lead to a bribe from the corporation and ultimately no government protection. Clearly this is incredibly chaotic and does not resemble the society we now live. Although this example does remind one of certain times in history, the point is that those time have been overcome through people working together not out of self-interest. The only logical way to explain this would to side with Hutcheson and agree that humans must have been made to work together through some means.