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Reformation and Renaissance Review, 2012
Bayle is usually regarded as a sceptic and it is generally thought that his doctrine of religious tolerance is founded on scepticism. This article emphasizes the privileged status of moral rationalism in Bayle’s construction of a philosophy of tolerance. It confirms that he pays only lip service to the customary prohibition of atheism.
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Bayle is usually regarded as a sceptic and it is generally thought that his doctrine of religious tolerance is founded on scepticism. This article emphasizes the privileged status of moral rationalism in Bayle’s construction of a philosophy of tolerance. It confirms that he pays only lip service to the customary prohibition of atheism.
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2020
Abstract This chapter begins with a preliminary consideration of the “Aristotelian” critique of Spinoza in the work of Pierre Bayle. The critique is so labeled to highlight Bayle’s claim that the substance-mode metaphysics that Descartes adopted from scholasticism, and that is purportedly an important source of the downfall of Spinoza’s ...
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Abstract This chapter begins with a preliminary consideration of the “Aristotelian” critique of Spinoza in the work of Pierre Bayle. The critique is so labeled to highlight Bayle’s claim that the substance-mode metaphysics that Descartes adopted from scholasticism, and that is purportedly an important source of the downfall of Spinoza’s ...
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Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2017
Abstract:Pierre Bayle shows that, in order to avoid devastating objections, materialism should postulate that the property of thinking does not emerge from certain material combinations but is by nature present everywhere in matter – a hypothesis recently revived and labelled “panpsychism.” There are reasons for entertaining the idea that Bayle ...
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Abstract:Pierre Bayle shows that, in order to avoid devastating objections, materialism should postulate that the property of thinking does not emerge from certain material combinations but is by nature present everywhere in matter – a hypothesis recently revived and labelled “panpsychism.” There are reasons for entertaining the idea that Bayle ...
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2008
Bayle's relationship with Judaism appears at first sight to be - unsurprisingly - paradoxical. He is widely acknowledged as the most sophisticated and passionate Early Enlightenment advocate of toleration, arguing, in his Commentaire philosophique (1686) that all religious sects should be tolerated, and specifi cally including Judaism among these ...
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Bayle's relationship with Judaism appears at first sight to be - unsurprisingly - paradoxical. He is widely acknowledged as the most sophisticated and passionate Early Enlightenment advocate of toleration, arguing, in his Commentaire philosophique (1686) that all religious sects should be tolerated, and specifi cally including Judaism among these ...
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