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Pierre Bayle's Cartesian Metaphysics - Rediscovering Early Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Pierre Bayle's Cartesian Metaphysics - Rediscovering Early Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
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In his magnum opus, the Historical and Critical Dictionary, Pierre
Bayle offered a series of brilliant criticisms of the major
philosophical and theological systems of the 17th Century. Although
officially skeptical concerning the attempt to provide a definitive
account of the truths of metaphysics, there is reason to see Bayle
as a reluctant skeptic. In particular, Todd Ryan contends that
Bayle harbored deep sympathy for the attempt by Descartes and his
most innovative successor, Nicolas Malebranche, to establish a
metaphysical system that would provide a foundation for the new
mechanistic natural philosophy while helping to secure the
fundamental tenets of rational theology. Through a careful analysis
of Bayle's critical engagement with such philosophers as Spinoza,
Leibniz, Locke and Newton, it is argued that, despite his
reputation as a skeptic, Bayle was not without philosophical
commitments of his own. Drawing on the full range of Bayle's
writings, from his early philosophical lectures to his final
controversial writings, Ryan offers detailed studies of Bayle's
treatment of such pivotal issues as mind-body dualism, causation
and God's relation to the world.
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