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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... doctrine ' which was preached ... in the sixteenth century ' and which had been a ' bloody and murderous religion ' ( Jap ( E ) ) . It was likely that ' some men without religion ' were more motivated ' to lead a decent , moral life by ...
... doctrine ' which was preached ... in the sixteenth century ' and which had been a ' bloody and murderous religion ' ( Jap ( E ) ) . It was likely that ' some men without religion ' were more motivated ' to lead a decent , moral life by ...
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... doctrine which required each sovereign authority to uphold an official religion . For the age which followed the era of the Wars of Religion did not renounce this institution . Even the century's most enlightened laymen Bodin , Grotius ...
... doctrine which required each sovereign authority to uphold an official religion . For the age which followed the era of the Wars of Religion did not renounce this institution . Even the century's most enlightened laymen Bodin , Grotius ...
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... doctrine of cuius regio eius religio which said that prince and people should adopt an official religion and conform to it . Yet the doctrine recognised too that there could be exemption from conformity to official worship , and in ...
... doctrine of cuius regio eius religio which said that prince and people should adopt an official religion and conform to it . Yet the doctrine recognised too that there could be exemption from conformity to official worship , and in ...
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... doctrines ' . Thirdly , leaders of a party of reform , sin- cerely and properly seeking to correct error or superstition , are no less obliged than the party of tradition to be wise and judicious in respect of the methods they use to ...
... doctrines ' . Thirdly , leaders of a party of reform , sin- cerely and properly seeking to correct error or superstition , are no less obliged than the party of tradition to be wise and judicious in respect of the methods they use to ...
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... doctrine that a diversity of sects is a threat to public peace . If it is argued that orthodoxy must be imposed because diversity threatens civil order , then this can be refuted . History shows , he pointed out , that many minority ...
... doctrine that a diversity of sects is a threat to public peace . If it is argued that orthodoxy must be imposed because diversity threatens civil order , then this can be refuted . History shows , he pointed out , that many minority ...
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