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This is the 11th volume of the 12-volume major scholarly edition of
the correspondence of Pierre Bayle, a 17th-century Protestant
thinker and forerunner of the Enlightenment.
This is the tenth volume of the 12-volume major scholarly edition
of the correspondence of Pierre Bayle, a 17th-century Protestant
thinker and forerunner of the Enlightenment.
The popular mind often associates scepticism with irreligion, and
critical distance with unbelief. In this view, reason and faith, or
scientific method and religious dogma, are not only different but
indeed antagonistic means of viewing the world, understanding human
existence, and conducting ones life. Pierre Bayles scepticism was
of a singularly distinct sort. He argued not that religion is
untrue, but that the discourses proper to theology and the
discourses proper to philosophy are incapable of any meaningful
exchange. Bayle sought to advance a secular morality that would be
independent of both speculative theism and religious revelation.
Bayle blazed a philosophical path that Denis Diderot, David Hume,
and other Enlightenment thinkers would follow. The continuing
significance of this work is its vigorous defence of complete
religious toleration. It is in itself a primary historical source
of our modern tradition of religious tolerance.
This is the tenth volume of the 12-volume major scholarly edition
of the correspondence of Pierre Bayle, a 17th-century Protestant
thinker and forerunner of the Enlightenment.
Richard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since
the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine
articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications. The bulk of
the major articles of philosophical and theological interest--those
that influenced Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire and formed
the basis for so many eighteenth-century discussions--are present,
including David,
Manicheans,Paulicians,Pyrrho,Rorarius,Simonides,Spinoza, and Zeno
of Elea.
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