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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Page xxiii
... minds of the sixteenth century who worked for peace and supported the Edict of Nantes . For , as Bayle notes in his article ' Mâcon ' , the reign of ' tolerance ' under ' the Edicts ' had proved that it was possible for ' the people of ...
... minds of the sixteenth century who worked for peace and supported the Edict of Nantes . For , as Bayle notes in his article ' Mâcon ' , the reign of ' tolerance ' under ' the Edicts ' had proved that it was possible for ' the people of ...
Page xxiv
... minds from both confessions and in all disciplines , and Bayle thought he could use Descartes's well - known account of the interplay between feelings , body and brain to explain the prejudices of certain historians.10 Why , for example ...
... minds from both confessions and in all disciplines , and Bayle thought he could use Descartes's well - known account of the interplay between feelings , body and brain to explain the prejudices of certain historians.10 Why , for example ...
Page xxv
... mind , morals and society , which are equally consonant with the same facts ( Syn ( C ) ) . One pre - Christian theory of creation , which Bayle brings before a general public through the 11 These expressions are from Dic , article ...
... mind , morals and society , which are equally consonant with the same facts ( Syn ( C ) ) . One pre - Christian theory of creation , which Bayle brings before a general public through the 11 These expressions are from Dic , article ...
Page xxvii
... minds recognised too that sectarians from whom toleration was withdrawn should always be permitted to emi- grate peacefully with their possessions . A facet of political life , therefore , which Bayle alone seems to have regarded as a ...
... minds recognised too that sectarians from whom toleration was withdrawn should always be permitted to emi- grate peacefully with their possessions . A facet of political life , therefore , which Bayle alone seems to have regarded as a ...
Page xxxv
... minds already regarded as unjust the imposition of a religious dogma in the face of conscien- tious refusal ( Nic ( C ) ; Syn ( B ) , ( C ) ) . However , as an apologist for impartiality , he thought that opponents of religious ...
... minds already regarded as unjust the imposition of a religious dogma in the face of conscien- tious refusal ( Nic ( C ) ; Syn ( B ) , ( C ) ) . However , as an apologist for impartiality , he thought that opponents of religious ...
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