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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... sects and , as in modern democracy , to imposing no religious tests upon citizens ( Greg ( G ) ; Com Phil , p . 364 ) . Bayle of course supported the existing practice of limited toleration for that was always better than the cruelty of ...
... sects and , as in modern democracy , to imposing no religious tests upon citizens ( Greg ( G ) ; Com Phil , p . 364 ) . Bayle of course supported the existing practice of limited toleration for that was always better than the cruelty of ...
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... sects to tolerate , and what methods to use to enforce conformity . On these subjects , intellectual debate in Louis XIV's France differed little from that which smouldered throughout Europe as a whole . After the devastation of civil ...
... sects to tolerate , and what methods to use to enforce conformity . On these subjects , intellectual debate in Louis XIV's France differed little from that which smouldered throughout Europe as a whole . After the devastation of civil ...
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... sects ( Sainc ( F ) ) , feeling at heart that unity of religion was the ideal to be sought . They supposed that the best ... sect , historically , had a tradition of armed resistance ( Hop ( F ) ) . Maimbourg in particular , drawing ...
... sects ( Sainc ( F ) ) , feeling at heart that unity of religion was the ideal to be sought . They supposed that the best ... sect , historically , had a tradition of armed resistance ( Hop ( F ) ) . Maimbourg in particular , drawing ...
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... sects and parties as well as by thinkers and jurists ( Sainct ( F ) ) . Because he distanced himself from all violent resistance , especially Jurieu's new defence of Protestant popular rebellion , some historians have supposed that ...
... sects and parties as well as by thinkers and jurists ( Sainct ( F ) ) . Because he distanced himself from all violent resistance , especially Jurieu's new defence of Protestant popular rebellion , some historians have supposed that ...
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... 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 sects have a record of being ...
... 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 sects have a record of being ...
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