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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... 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 particular for Christians who belonged to the confessions ...
... 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 particular for Christians who belonged to the confessions ...
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... prince on the throne of a Protestant country as a mirror image of Henry IV's earlier role as a Huguenot prince in a Catholic country ( NRL , pp . 293-4 ) . As events turned out , the English Protestants did reject their Catholic king ...
... prince on the throne of a Protestant country as a mirror image of Henry IV's earlier role as a Huguenot prince in a Catholic country ( NRL , pp . 293-4 ) . As events turned out , the English Protestants did reject their Catholic king ...
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... prince must be deposed , should henceforward be re - asserted as a positive duty which he is required to discharge . There are ' three sorts of person ' , Bayle counsels , who must learn from past atrocities to reform utterly their ...
... prince must be deposed , should henceforward be re - asserted as a positive duty which he is required to discharge . There are ' three sorts of person ' , Bayle counsels , who must learn from past atrocities to reform utterly their ...
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... Prince pour détruire le dogma de l'indifférence et de la tolérance universelle contre un livre intitulé Commentaire philoso- phique sur ces paroles de la parabole ' Contrains - les d'entrer ' . Rotterdam . ( c . 1690/1 ) , Examen d'un ...
... Prince pour détruire le dogma de l'indifférence et de la tolérance universelle contre un livre intitulé Commentaire philoso- phique sur ces paroles de la parabole ' Contrains - les d'entrer ' . Rotterdam . ( c . 1690/1 ) , Examen d'un ...
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