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 xxiv
... virtue and condemn vice even though few are able to live wholly by their own standards ( Juno ( Z ) , ( BB ) ; Xen ( H ) , ( K ) ) . By analogy , 9 10 8 See Sys Abr . On Cartesian thought , see Popkin ( 1979 ) , pp . 110 , 129 ; in the ...
... virtue and condemn vice even though few are able to live wholly by their own standards ( Juno ( Z ) , ( BB ) ; Xen ( H ) , ( K ) ) . By analogy , 9 10 8 See Sys Abr . On Cartesian thought , see Popkin ( 1979 ) , pp . 110 , 129 ; in the ...
Page xxxiv
... virtue had surpassed that of most idolaters ( Clar 1 : §§ш - xv ) . Bayle's ' paradox ' may be said to remain perma- nently relevant to the case for impartial rule in every religiously divided society seeking to avoid strife among its ...
... virtue had surpassed that of most idolaters ( Clar 1 : §§ш - xv ) . Bayle's ' paradox ' may be said to remain perma- nently relevant to the case for impartial rule in every religiously divided society seeking to avoid strife among its ...
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... virtue . On the other , it was chronicled that some persons who asserted that they believed strongly in divine providence had , nevertheless , engaged in lawless conduct and vice . Therefore , the civil religion was not to be the sole ...
... virtue . On the other , it was chronicled that some persons who asserted that they believed strongly in divine providence had , nevertheless , engaged in lawless conduct and vice . Therefore , the civil religion was not to be the sole ...
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... virtue . Doing the right thing rarely allows the suspension of judgement ; yet an ethical choice differed from a political choice because , being of concern only to the individ- ual who made it , it could be arrived at in more than one ...
... virtue . Doing the right thing rarely allows the suspension of judgement ; yet an ethical choice differed from a political choice because , being of concern only to the individ- ual who made it , it could be arrived at in more than one ...
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