Bayle: Political WritingsPierre Bayle was one of the most important sceptical thinkers of the seventeenth century. His work was a major influence on the development of the ideas of Voltaire (who acclaimed it for its candour on such subjects as atheism, obscenity and sexual conduct), Hume, Montesquieu and Rousseau. Banned in France on first publication in 1697, Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique became a bestseller and ran into several editions and translations. Sally L. Jenkinson's masterly edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's monumental work (which ran to seven million words). This is volume selects political writings from Bayle's work and presents its author as a specifically political thinker. Sally L. Jenkinson's authoritative translation, careful selection of texts, and lucid introduction will be welcomed by scholars and students of the history of ideas, political theory, cultural history and French studies. |
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... Christian Laursen . Other friends and colleagues whose ideas have enriched this project include : Judith Evans , Mark Goldie , Sarah Hutton , John Hope Mason , Effa Okupa , and Professors Bernard Crick , Robert Goodin , Iain Hampsher ...
... Christian Laursen . Other friends and colleagues whose ideas have enriched this project include : Judith Evans , Mark Goldie , Sarah Hutton , John Hope Mason , Effa Okupa , and Professors Bernard Crick , Robert Goodin , Iain Hampsher ...
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... Christ's example , for rewarding or penalising a citizen for refusing to believe in one metaphysical tenet rather than another ( Greg ( E ) ; Soc F ( L ) ) . Education , life and times Bayle was born in 1647 , the second son of Jean ...
... Christ's example , for rewarding or penalising a citizen for refusing to believe in one metaphysical tenet rather than another ( Greg ( E ) ; Soc F ( L ) ) . Education , life and times Bayle was born in 1647 , the second son of Jean ...
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... Christians of the first three centuries and with the Stoics of the same era . The Christianity of those times had been a ' benign , gentle and patient religion ' , Bayle observed , and this contrasted sharply with the aberrant doctrine ...
... Christians of the first three centuries and with the Stoics of the same era . The Christianity of those times had been a ' benign , gentle and patient religion ' , Bayle observed , and this contrasted sharply with the aberrant doctrine ...
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... Christian theory of creation , which Bayle brings before a general public through the 11 These expressions are from Dic , article ' Ermite ' , Remark ( I ) , para . 1 ( not in this compilation ) . On the natural passions in general ...
... Christian theory of creation , which Bayle brings before a general public through the 11 These expressions are from Dic , article ' Ermite ' , Remark ( I ) , para . 1 ( not in this compilation ) . On the natural passions in general ...
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... Christians who belonged to the confessions of Catholicism , Lutheranism , or Calvin- ism . Accordingly as early as the Peace of Augsburg of 1555 and the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 , Europe recognised limited toleration for approved ...
... Christians who belonged to the confessions of Catholicism , Lutheranism , or Calvin- ism . Accordingly as early as the Peace of Augsburg of 1555 and the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 , Europe recognised limited toleration for approved ...
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